bookplate

English

Etymology

From 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 […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     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: 藏書票／藏书票 (zh) (cángshūpiào)

• Esperanto: ekslibriso
• 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).