This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word: Biblioklept!
This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word…
B
iblioklept:
You definitely want to avoid having one of these in your library or bookstore. Because a biblioklept is someone who steals books… and, I bet they don’t even read them.
Etymology:
Origin Of The Word Biblioklept
The element of bibliokept that refers to books comes from the Greek biblion meaning paper, or scroll. That’s also the word for book as a division of a larger work. And kleptes is the Greek for thief, a cheater, from kleptein meaning to steal, act secretly.[1]
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Endnotes:
[1] “Biblioklept.” Etymologyonline. https://www.etymonline.com/word/biblioklept
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