bibliotheca — this is a little-known English word used to refer to a collection or a list of books
biblioteca — this is the much-known and well-used Spanish cognate used to refer to a library — the actual building where books are housed
You can see that the two words have slightly different meanings, but they both deal with a collection of books. That’s b…
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