bookplate

bookplate

English

Etymology

book +‎ plate

Noun

bookplate (plural bookplates)

1. A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate.

Translations

piece of paper pasted on a book to show ownership

Bulgarian: екслибрис m (ekslibris) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Estonian: eksliibris Finnish: exlibris French: ex-libris (fr) m, ex libris m German: Exlibris (de) n Italian: ex libris m Lithuanian: ekslibrisas m Polish: ekslibris (pl) m Portuguese: ex-libris (pt) m Spanish: ex libris m Swedish: exlibris (sv) n, exlibrismärke n

Verb

bookplate (third-person singular simple present bookplates, present participle bookplating, simple past and past participle bookplated)

1. (transitive) To affix a bookplate to (a book).