Bibliograafiliste

Bibliograafiliste is an Estonian adjective form meaning related to bibliography or bibliographic matters. The base adjective is bibliograafiline, and bibliograafiliste is a declined form used with plural nouns in certain cases, most commonly in genitive or other oblique cases. It is a term you will encounter in scholarly, library, and publishing contexts.

In usage, bibliograafiliste modifies plural nouns to describe items that pertain to or concern bibliographies, references, or source material. For example, in expressions such as bibliograafiliste allikate loend, meaning a list of bibliographic sources, the adjective agrees with the plural noun allikate. Other typical collocations include bibliograafiliste viidete nimekiri (a list of bibliographic citations) and related phrases that refer to bibliographic data, records, or documentation.

Etymology and form: bibliograafiline derives from bibliograafia (bibliography) with the Estonian adjectival suffix -iline. The form bibliograafiliste represents how the adjective inflects to match a plural noun in appropriate syntactic roles. As with other Estonian adjectives, it does not encode gender and changes with number and case according to the noun it modifies.

See also: bibliograafia, bibliographic data, bibliographic references. In academic writing, bibliograafiliste is a standard descriptive term for plural bibliographic elements and is part of the broader terminology used in library science and scholarly citation.