English word library comes from Latin librarius, and later Latin librarium (A bookcase. A library.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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librarius | Latin (lat) | (substantive) A bookcase. (substantive) A scribe, copyist, secretary. Of or pertaining to books. |
librarium | Latin (lat) | A bookcase. A library. |
librairie | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | |
librarie | Anglo-Norman (xno) | |
librarie | Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) | |
library | English (en) | (card games) The deck or draw pile.. (computer science) A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.. A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.. A collection of books or other forms of stored information.. An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed [...] |