Philatelic Terms Translated
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.
Philatelic Terms Translated
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 |