philatelist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English philately

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English philatelist

From philately + -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪˈlætəlɪst/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

philatelist (plural philatelists)

1. A person who collects and studies postage stamps.
   • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 1, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:

     M. Laruelle, who had been born in Languion, in the Moselle country, but whose father, a rich philatelist of remote habits, had moved to Paris, usually spent his summer holidays as a boy with his parents in Normandy.

Synonyms

• stamp collector

Derived terms

• aerophilatelist
• astrophilatelist

Translations

a person who studies or collects stamps

• Belarusian: філатэлі́ст m (filatelíst), філатэлі́стка f (filatelístka)
• Bulgarian: филателист m (filatelist)
• Carpathian Rusyn: філателі́ста m (filatelísta)
• Catalan: filatelista m or f, filatelista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集郵家 / 集邮家 (zh) (jíyóujiā)

• Czech: sběratel (cs) m, filatelista m
• Danish: frimærkesamler (da), filatelist c
• Dutch: postzegelverzamelaar (nl) m, filatelist (nl) m
• Estonian: filatelist, margikoguja
• Finnish: filatelisti (fi), postimerkkeilijä (fi)
• French: philatéliste (fr) m or f
• Galician: filatelista m or f
• German: Philatelist (de) m, Philatelistin (de) f, Briefmarkensammler (de) m, Briefmarkensammlerin (de) f
• Greek: φιλοτελιστής (el) m (filotelistís), φιλοτελίστρια (el) f (filotelístria)
• Greenlandic: fritidsklubi
• Hebrew: אספן בולים m (asfán bulím)
• Hungarian: bélyeggyűjtő (hu), filatelista (hu)
• Icelandic: frímerkjasafnari (is) m
• Italian: filatelista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 切手収集家 (きってしゅうしゅうか, kitte shūshūka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: filatelist m, frimerkesamler m

  Nynorsk: filatelist m, frimerkesamlar m

• Polish: filatelista (pl) m, filatelistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: filatelista (pt) m or f
• Russian: филатели́ст (ru) m (filatɛlíst), филатели́стка (ru) f (filatɛlístka)
• Slovak: filatelista (sk) m
• Spanish: filatelista (es) m or f, filatélico (es) m
• Swedish: filatelist (sv) c, frimärkssamlare (sv) c
• Turkish: filatelist (tr), pulcu (tr)
• Ukrainian: філателі́ст m (filatelíst), філателі́стка f (filatelístka)