library

Significado

An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
A room dedicated to storing books.
A collection of software routines that provide 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.
The deck or draw pile.

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈlaɪbɹi/

Etimología

From 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 bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from Old English bōchūs (compare bookhouse). Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish librería, Romanian librărie and Portuguese livraria. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.