How to Say "Bibliography" in Spanish

bibliografía

/bibljoɡɾaˈfia/feminine

The Spanish word for 'bibliography' is bibliografía.

bibliografía is a feminine noun used to refer to a list of books, documents.

Meaning: list of books or documents (noun)

What does it mean word for word?

The word is a compound of biblio- meaning 'book' and -grafía meaning 'writing' or 'description'.

The plural form of bibliografía is bibliografías.

/bibljoɡɾaˈfia/

In Spanish, the term bibliografía can be used to describe a person's entire body of written work, whereas in English, 'bibliography' almost exclusively refers to a list of sources at the end of a text.
The suffix -grafía in bibliografía is used in Spanish to describe various forms of specialized notation, such as coreografía for the writing of dance steps.
The root biblio- comes from the Greek biblíon, which actually meant 'small book' rather than a large volume.

En mi ensayo sobre la historia del arte, he incluido una bibliografía exhaustiva de las fuentes que utilicé.
In my essay about art history, I have included a comprehensive bibliography of the sources I used.
Me preguntaron sobre las referencias bibliográficas de mi tesis y cómo las había seleccionado.
They asked me about the bibliographic references in my thesis and how I had selected them.
La bibliografía es muy extensa.
The bibliography is very extensive.
Debes incluir la bibliografía al final.
You must include the bibliography at the end.
¿Revisaste la bibliografía de este libro?
Did you check the bibliography of this book?

Two students are discussing a research paper in a library.

Javier

Sofía, ¿tienes la bibliografía lista?
Sofía, do you have the bibliography ready?
Sofía

Sí, Javier, ya la terminé ayer.
Yes, Javier, I finished it yesterday.
Javier

Perfecto, la bibliografía es muy importante.
Perfect, the bibliography is very important.
Sofía

Tienes razón, ayuda mucho al lector.
You are right, it helps the reader a lot.

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