librairie

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French librairie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librāria (“library”), from liber (“book”). Sense “bookseller, bookshop” is from 16th century, and displaced “library” sense. The sense “software library” is a semantic loan from English library. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /li.bʁɛ.ʁi/ ~ /li.bʁe.ʁi/ === Noun === librairie f (plural librairies) (archaic) library (institution which holds books for use by the public) Synonym: bibliothèque (archaic) library (collection of books) bookshop, bookstore (shop that sells books) Synonym: bouquinerie tobacconist's (shop that sells books, newspapers, cigarettes, snacks and other various items) Synonym: tabac (programming, sometimes proscribed) library (collection of software routines) Synonym: bibliothèque ==== Derived terms ==== librairie-papeterie ==== Related terms ==== libraire ==== Descendants ==== Haitian Creole: libreri → Tashelhit: lalibreri === Further reading === “librairie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle French == === Etymology === From Old French librairie, from Latin librāria (“library”), from liber (“book”). === Noun === librairie f (plural librairies) library (institution which holds books) library (collection of books) ==== Descendants ==== French: librairie === References === librairie on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French) == Norman == === Etymology === From Latin libraria, from liber (“book”). === Noun === librairie f (plural librairies) (Jersey) bookshop, bookstore == Old French == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin librāria (“bookcase; library”), from liber (“book”). === Noun === librairie oblique singular, f (oblique plural librairies, nominative singular librairie, nominative plural librairies) library (institution which holds books) Synonym: libraire bookcase ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: librairieFrench: librairie === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “librairie”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.