filatelie

Significado (Inglés)

philately

Sinónimos

postzegelkunde

Traducións

Philatelie

philately

stamp-collecting

filatelia

philatélie

filatelia

Briefmarkenkunde

pulculuk

filatelia

Briefmarkensammeln

pul kolleksiyonculuğu

Sammlung

φιλοτελισμός

collection

stamp collecting

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

1865, from French philatélie, coined by French stamp collector Georges Herpin (in Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste, Nov. 15, 1864) from Ancient Greek φιλέω (philéō, “I love”) + ἀτέλεια (atéleia), the closest word he could find in Ancient Greek to the concept of "postage stamp", from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + τέλος (télos, “tax”). 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".