Translation
bookshop
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Word origin
From libraire ('bookseller'), from Latin librarius, from liber ('book'). It is a false friend: English 'library' is bibliothèque in French.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- librarius
- English cognates
- library, libretto
Grammar
Examples
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I am popping into the bookshop to buy a novel.
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This little bookshop mainly sells old books.
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The local bookshop is organising a meeting with the author.
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My sister has worked in a bookshop for two years.
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Careful, une librairie is not a library: you buy the books there.
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