Library Definition
- bookroom
- subroutine library
- program library
- depository library
- stack
- carrel
- bibliotheca
- gallery
- reading-room
- institution
- books
- atheneum
- athenaeum
- archive
- incunabula
Other Word Forms of Library
Noun
Origin of Library
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Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books"), from librarius (“concerning books"), from liber (“the inner bark of trees, paper, parchment, book"), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(h) (“to strip, to peel"). Displaced native Middle English bochus, bochous (“library, bookhouse") (from Old English bōchÅ«s (“library, bookhouse")).
From Wiktionary
Middle English librarie from Anglo-Norman from Latin librārium bookcase from neuter of librārius of books from liber libr- inner bark of trees used as a writing material, book
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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