"Πού είναι η Βίβλος;"

Translation: Where is the Bible?

[carmina_banana]

In Spanish is la Biblia. We transformed in feminine singular the ancient plural βιβλία.

[Dimitra956826]

That's interesting! ^.^ Is Spanish your primary language? ^.^

[carmina_banana]

Yes, it is.

[Dimitra956826]

I'm so going to learn Spanish one day. I really like the language. ^.^

[Nicole966706]

Is it because the Bible is a compilation of several different books, grouped together as one Holy Book? Same in French: la Bible.

[kirakrakra]

En. Bible, Fr. Bible Sp. Biblia Sw.bibel ... via Latin from Greek Βιβλος, η from the name of the Fenician town Βύβλος/ Byblos from which the Greeks imported papyrus.

Βιβλίο το/ book has the same root

[Nicole966706]

The medium is the message?

[np8gWHZu]

In French, we say la Bible ; in Italian, they say la Bibbia; in Portuguese, a Bíblia; in Catalan, la Bíblia; la Bíblia in the occitan languages.
Whereas as far as I know, the word for book is masculine: le livre (french), il libro (italian), o livro (portuguese), el llibre (catalan), lo/le/eth libre (occitan languages).
Maybe somebody could help with Romanian. I ran out of time!

[DianaWard7]

And in German, it's die Bibel (feminine also), whereas book, das Buch, is neuter.

[Dax907788]

In Romanian "the Bible" is "Biblia" (the posponed definite article merges with the noun, as in North Germanic languages), while "the book" is "cartea", a feminine noun. Indefinite forms are "Biblie" and "carte"

[kirakrakra]

Maybe this Ro. cartea has the same origin as Sp. carta (letter, map, chart) which is from Gr. χάρτης = chart, map from ancient Gr. χάρτις = papyren (roll of) and since the Greeks imported papyren from Βύβλος/ Βyblos, bibel, book, cartea, chart all have this same city as origin