philately

Etymology
1865, borrowed from, coined by French stamp collector Georges Herpin (in Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste, Nov. 15, 1864) from  + , the closest word he could find in Ancient Greek to the concept of “postage stamp”, from  +. This word serves as a reminder of the original function of postage stamps, now often forgotten: the cost of letter-carrying formerly was paid by the recipient; stamps indicated it had been pre-paid by the sender, thus the letters were “carriage-free”.

Noun

 * 1) Stamp collecting.
 * 2) The study of postage stamps, postal routes, postal history, etc.

Translations

 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: филателия
 * Catalan: filatèlia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: filateli
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: filateelia
 * Finnish:, , postimerkkien keräily
 * French:, collection de timbres
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: frímerkjasöfnun
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 切手収集
 * Latvian: filatelija
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: frimerkesamling
 * Nynorsk: frimerkesamling
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, коллекциони́рование ма́рок
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, frimärkssamlande,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: філателі́я


 * Bulgarian: филателия
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 郵票研究
 * Danish: filateli
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, bélyegtudomány
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: filatelija
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: filateli
 * Nynorsk: filateli
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: