flyleaf

English

Etymology

fly +‎ leaf

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaɪˌlif/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

flyleaf (plural flyleafs or flyleaves)

1. A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.
   • 2008 May 15, Alberto Manguel, “A 30,000-Volume Window on the World”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the flyleaf, the faded bus ticket marking a page for a reason today mysterious, all try to remind me of who I was then.

   1. Especially, the free portion of an endpaper.

      Holonym: endpaper

      Comeronym: pastedown

Translations

blank page at the front or back of a book

• Catalan: pàgina de respecte f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扉頁／扉页 (zh) (fēiyè), 襯頁／衬页 (zh) (chènyè)

• Dutch: schutblad (nl) n
• Finnish: tyhjä sivu
• French: page de garde (fr) f
• German: Vorsatz (de) m, Vorsatzblatt (de) n
• Hebrew: דף מגן m
• Icelandic: saurblað n
• Japanese: 遊び紙 (あそびがみ, asobigami)
• Portuguese: guarda (pt) f
• Russian: форза́ц (ru) m (forzác), фо́рзац (ru) m (fórzac)
• Spanish: guarda (es) f
• Swedish: försätts (sv), försättsblad

Further reading

• “flyleaf”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.