bibliotheca

1. 1.

   a collection of books

   Broaderlibrary

Other forms of bibliotheca

plural

bibliothecae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bibliotheca

What does bibliotheca mean?

bibliotheca means "a collection of books".

How many syllables are in bibliotheca?

bibliotheca has 5 syllables: bi-bli-o-the-ca. The stress falls on "o".

Is bibliotheca a common word?

bibliotheca is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.