philatélie French · revision 16003

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=coinage|attested=1864, Le Collectionneur de timbres-poste}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /fi.la.te.li/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''philatélie''' ''f'' (uncountable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It was coined by the stamp collector Georges Herpin in “Le Collectionneur de timbres-poste” of 15 November 1864,^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|8, 383a) from [[phil-|alt=phil(o)-|t=love of]] and an element taken from [[grc|ἀτέλεια|tr=atéleia|t=exemption from taxes]], from [[grc|ἀτελής|tr=atelḗs|t=free from charges]], from privative “a-” and [[grc|τέλος|tr=télos|t=charge, tax]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) Herpin reasoned that stamps, paid by the sender, freed the receiver from paying the postage, which had been the usual practice.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Etymonline) Bloch and Wartburg and the GLLF take it from the Greek phrase “ex ateleias” “free of charge”, arbitrarily made to mean “post free”.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Herpin proposed it in 1864 with the gloss “love of the study of everything that concerns franking”;^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) he also offered ''philatèle'' for the collector.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its odd etymology forgotten, the word had great success and was adopted at once, with ''philatéliste'' (1864) and ''philatélique'' (1865).^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The Académie's 1935 edition has the rare synonym ''philatélisme'' (1903–1907) but not ''philatélie''.^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992) English ''philately'' is recorded from 1865.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 15 November 1864 – Proposed by Herpin.^(TLFi)

+ * 1864 – ''Philatéliste''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1865 – ''Philatélique'', English ''philately''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1903 – ''Philatélisme''.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1935 – ''Philatélisme'' in the Académie.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|philately|alt=Philately]]: the study and collecting of postage stamps.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(dated)'' A taste for collecting stamps.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[philatéliste]]

+ * [[philatélique]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[grc|ἀτέλεια|tr=atéleia]]

+ * [[en|philately]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}