Vocabulary for Book Lovers
This week’s Lunchbox holds three words to tickle the collective fancy of book lovers!
Latin for “books that are no books”, biblia abiblia refers to utilitarian volumes like dictionaries or catalogs, books with no theme or deeper meaning. The phrase is also used as a scathing label for any books deemed worthless or of poor quality.
Bibliogony (“bib-lee-AH-guh-nee”) comes to us from the Greek biblio (“book”) plus -gonos (“seed, generation”). It is the genesis of books; their creation, printing, and publication.
The Enchiridion is featured in the first episode of Adventure Time.
An enchiridion (plural: enchiridions or enchiridia) is a handbook or manual. From the Greek encheiridion: “that which is held in the hand”.
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