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															Here is a list of philatelic terms translated from English into French, German, Italian, 
Portuguese and Spanish.
This is a topic we hear collectors often ask about, and is provided courtesy of the StampShows site.
Here is a list of philatelic terms translated from English into French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
This is a topic we hear collectors often ask about, and is provided courtesy of the StampShows site.
| Colours, Numbers and Perforations are grouped together. | |||||
| ENGLISH | FRENCH Français | Deutsch | Italiano | Português | Español | 
| Address | |||||
| Airmail | |||||
| Airmail stamp | |||||
| Album | |||||
| Auction | |||||
| Bisected | |||||
| Block (of four) | |||||
| Booklet | |||||
| Booklet pane | |||||
| Bottom | |||||
| Bourse | |||||
| Cancellation | |||||
| Cancelled | |||||
| Catalog(ue) | |||||
| Chalk-surfaced paper | |||||
| Centered | |||||
| Club | |||||
| Coil | |||||
| Collect | |||||
| Collector | |||||
| COLOURS: | |||||
| …Black | |||||
| …Blue | |||||
| …Brown | |||||
| …Dark Blue | |||||
| …Green | |||||
| …Grey | |||||
| …Light Blue | |||||
| …Multi-coloured | |||||
| …Orange | |||||
| …Pink | |||||
| …Purple | |||||
| …Red | |||||
| …Shade | |||||
| …White | |||||
| …Yellow | |||||
| Commemorative stamp | |||||
| Complete set | Satz | l’ insieme | |||
| Corner | |||||
| Country | |||||
| Cover | |||||
| Creased | (Crease = Bug) | ||||
| Dark-coloured | |||||
| Date | |||||
| Dealer | |||||
| Definitive stamps | |||||
| Design | |||||
| Die | |||||
| Double | |||||
| Embossed | |||||
| Engraved | |||||
| Error | |||||
| Essay | |||||
| Estimate | |||||
| Exhibition | |||||
| Express mail stamp | |||||
| Faded | |||||
| Fake | |||||
| First Day .Cover | |||||
| First flight cover | |||||
| Fiscal stamp | |||||
| Folded | |||||
| Forgery | |||||
| Frame | |||||
| Gutter (pair) | |||||
| Hinged | |||||
| Horizontal | |||||
| Inscription | |||||
| Inverted | |||||
| Issue | |||||
| Left (side) | |||||
| Light-coloured | |||||
| Local stamp | |||||
| Magnifying glass | |||||
| Margin | |||||
| Meter label | |||||
| Middle | |||||
| Miniature sheet | |||||
| Mint (stamps) | |||||
| Never hinged | |||||
| Newspaper stamp | |||||
| NUMBERS: | |||||
| …One tenth | |||||
| …One quarter | |||||
| …One third | |||||
| …One half | |||||
| …Two thirds | |||||
| …Three quarters | |||||
| …One | |||||
| …Two | |||||
| …Three | |||||
| …Four | |||||
| …Five | |||||
| …Six | |||||
| …Seven | |||||
| …Eight | |||||
| …Nine | |||||
| …Ten | |||||
| …Eleven | |||||
| …Twelve | |||||
| …Thirteen | |||||
| …Fourteen | |||||
| …Fifteen | |||||
| …Sixteen | |||||
| …Seventeen | |||||
| …Eighteen | |||||
| …Nineteen | |||||
| …Twenty | |||||
| …Twenty five | |||||
| …Fifty | |||||
| …Seventy five | |||||
| …One hundred | |||||
| Obsolete | |||||
| Off-center | |||||
| Official stamp | |||||
| Original gum | |||||
| Overprint | |||||
| Overprinted | |||||
| Pair | |||||
| Paper | |||||
| Parcel Post stamp | |||||
| PERFORATIONS: | |||||
| …Comb perforation | |||||
| …Imperforated | |||||
| …Line perforation | |||||
| …Perforated | |||||
| …Roulette | |||||
| …Rouletted | |||||
| Philatelic | |||||
| Philatelist | |||||
| Philately | |||||
| Pin hole | |||||
| Plate | |||||
| Postage | |||||
| Postage due stamp | |||||
| Postage rate | |||||
| Postcard | |||||
| Postmark | |||||
| Post Office | |||||
| Proof | |||||
| Repaired | |||||
| Reprint | |||||
| Revenue | |||||
| Reversed | |||||
| Right (side) | |||||
| Scuffed | |||||
| Selvage (Selvedge) | |||||
| Semi-postal stamp | |||||
| Set (of stamps) | |||||
| Sheet | |||||
| Short set | |||||
| Sideways | |||||
| Single (stamp) | |||||
| Society | |||||
| Souvenir sheet | |||||
| Special Delivery Stamp | |||||
| Specimen | |||||
| Stain | |||||
| Stamp | |||||
| Stamp hinge | |||||
| State (Province) | |||||
| Stationery | |||||
| Stock list | |||||
| Straight edge | |||||
| Strip | |||||
| Surcharge | |||||
| Thinned | |||||
| Toned | |||||
| Top | |||||
| Torn | |||||
| Unused | |||||
| Used | |||||
| Unwatermarked | Sin filigrana | ||||
| Value (of) | |||||
| Vertical | |||||
| Watermark | |||||
| Watermark sideways | coricata | ||||