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Bibliothecary

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to libraries. not-comparable

    "My performance of posthumous justice to QZX., my late deceased and much deplored friend, has been somewhat interrupted by a short absence from the peaceful privacy I enjoy at Leighton Buzzard. Your ready compliance, however, with my desire, that these biographical jewels should not lie locked up in a bibliothecary cabinet, has made me feel that I am enabled to he a faithful executor to QZX.’s fame."

Noun
  1. 1
    A librarian. archaic

    "Hence we went to the house of Hippolito Vitellesco (afterwards Bibliothecary of yᵉ Vatican Library)[…]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin bibliothēcārius (“librarian”). Compare French bibliothécaire and Italian and Spanish bibliotecario.

Etymology 2

From Latin bibliothēca (“library”) + -ary (“of or relating to”).

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