Meaning & use
ex libris
A Latin phrase meaning 'from the books of,' printed or inscribed to show who owns a book.
See it in a sentence
The old novel's inside cover bore an ex-libris stamp from a nineteenth-century collector.
She designed a personalized ex-libris featuring a small illustration of an owl.
A note on using this word
Ex-libris is often shortened simply to 'bookplate' in everyday English.
Words with a similar meaning
bookplate
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