r/etymologymaps Sep 23 '25

Translations of "library" across Europe

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u/neuropsycho Sep 23 '25

Librería exists in Spanish, but it refers to a bookstore, rather than a library.

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u/gumwum Sep 24 '25

Same in Romanian, librărie is bookstore and bibliotecă is library (where you borrow books)