French · noun

bibliothèque

‘place of books’
simplex — no productive affix

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
library
library
French
bibliothèque
bibliothèque
Tamil
நூலகம்nūlakam
நூல்+-அகம்collective / place

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  1. 01bibliothèque is a French noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
    • rulerule:simplex
  2. 02Its meaning ('place of books') is represented as PLACE_OF(HAVE(MANY, TEXT)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.3 steps
  3. 03bibliothèque is borrowed from Latin bibliothēca ‘book-repository’ (confidence 0.85).3 steps
    • rulerule:etymology-hop
    • edgeedge:library-la-fr0.85
    • sourcetlfi0.85
  4. 04Aligned forms: English library (translation equivalent); Hindi पुस्तकालय (pustakālay) (translation equivalent); Tamil நூலகம் (nūlakam) (translation equivalent); Telugu గ్రంథాలయం (granthālayaṁ) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment

Where it came from

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  1. bibliothēcaLatin— borrowed →bibliothèque accepted
    tlfi0.85