bibliography

English

Etymology

FromAncient Greekβιβλιογραφία(bibliographía,“the act or habit of writing books”),fromβιβλιογράφος(bibliográphos,“a writer of books”),fromβιβλίον(biblíon,“small book”)+γράφω(gráphō,“I write”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/bɪbliɒɡɹəfi/

• Audio(Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

bibliography(pluralbibliographies)

1. A section of a written work containingcitations,notquotations,to all the booksreferred toin the work.
   • 1992,Rudolf M[athias]Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian,volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN,page viii:

     The supplementarybibliography(in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.

2. A list of books or documents relevant to a particular subject or author.
3. The study of thehistoryof books in terms of theirclassification,printingandpublication.

Derived terms

• annotated bibliography
• autobibliography
• bibliographer
• bibliographic
• bibliographick
• bio-bibliography
• biobibliography
• cartobibliography
• hyperbibliography
• webliography

Related terms

• bibliology
• reference list

Translations

section of a written work

• Armenian:մատենագիտություն(hy)(matenagitutʻyun),գրականություն(hy)(grakanutʻyun),բիբլիոգրաֆիա(hy)(bibliografia)
• Catalan:bibliografia(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Văn hiến mục lục／Văn hiến mục lục(wénxiàn mùlù)

• Czech:literatura(cs)f
• Danish:bibliografic
• Esperanto:bibliografio
• Faroese:bókmentaskráf
• Finnish:lähdeluettelo(fi)
• French:bibliographie(fr)f
• Georgian:ბიბლიოგრაფია(bibliograpia)
• German:Bibliographie(de)f
• Greek:βιβλιογραφία(el)f(vivliografía)
• Hungarian:bibliográfia(hu),könyvészet(hu)
• Ido:bibliografio(io)
• Irish:leabharliostam
• Italian:bibliografia(it)f
• Japanese:Tham khảo văn hiến(ja)(sankōbunken),Văn hiến mục lục(bunkenmokuroku)
• Macedonian:библиогра́фијаf(bibliográfija)
• Polish:bibliografia(pl)f
• Portuguese:bibliografia(pt)f
• Russian:библиогра́фия(ru)f(bibliográfija)
• Spanish:bibliografía(es)f
• Swedish:källförteckning(sv)c
• Tagalog:talaaklatan
• Turkish:bibliyografya(tr)
• Uzbek:bibliografiya(uz)
• Vietnamese:thư mục(vi)

list of books or documents

• Armenian:մատենագիտություն(hy)(matenagitutʻyun),բիբլիոգրաֆիա(hy)(bibliografia)
• Catalan:bibliografia(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Văn hiến mục lục／Văn hiến mục lục(wénxiàn mùlù)

• Crimean Tatar:kitabiyat
• Esperanto:bibliografio
• Finnish:julkaisuluettelo,kirjallisuusluettelo,bibliografia(fi)
• French:bibliographie(fr)f
• Georgian:ბიბლიოგრაფია(bibliograpia)
• Greek:βιβλιογραφία(el)f(vivliografía)
• Hungarian:irodalom(hu),könyvészet(hu)
• Ido:bibliografio(io)
• Indonesian:bibliografi(id)
• Irish:leabharliostam
• Japanese:Thư chí(ja)(shoshi)
• Macedonian:библиогра́фијаf(bibliográfija)
• Maori:rārangi pukapuka,rārangi tuhinga
• Polish:bibliografia(pl)f
• Portuguese:bibliografia(pt)f
• Russian:библиогра́фия(ru)f(bibliográfija)
• Spanish:bibliografía(es)f
• Swedish:bibliografi(sv)c
• Tagalog:talaaklatan
• Vietnamese:thư mục(vi)

study of the history of books

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Thư mục học／Thư mục học(zh)(mùlùxué)

• Finnish:bibliografia(fi)
• French:habbo
• Greek:βιβλιολογία(el)(vivliología)
• Hungarian:bibliográfia(hu),könyvtudomány,könyvészet(hu)
• Irish:bibleagrafaíochtf,leabhareolaíochtf
• Japanese:Thư chí học(ja)(shoshigaku),Mục lục học(mokurokugaku)
• Macedonian:библиогра́фијаf(bibliográfija)
• Polish:bibliografia(pl)
• Portuguese:bibliografia(pt)f
• Russian:библиогра́фия(ru)f(bibliográfija)
• Spanish:bibliografía(es)f
• Swedish:bibliografi(sv)c
• Vietnamese:thư mục học(vi),thư tịch học

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Further reading

• “bibliography”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• “bibliography”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.
• “bibliography”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.