cellophane

English

Etymology

Genericized trademark. Blend of cellulose +‎ diaphane.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sělʹəfān, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛləfeɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

cellophane (countable and uncountable, plural cellophanes)

1. Any of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose.

   Coordinate terms: celluloid, cellulose acetate

   • 1967, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, The Beatles (music):

     Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head

Derived terms

• cellophane noodle
• cellotaph
• sellotape
• Sellotape

Related terms

• -phane (and its derivatives)

Translations

the transparent plastic film

• Arabic: سِيلُوفَان m (silufān)
• Catalan: cel·lofana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玻璃紙 / 玻璃纸 (zh) (bōlizhǐ)

• Czech: celofán m
• Danish: cellofan (da) n
• Finnish: sellofaani (fi)
• French: cellophane (fr) f
• Georgian: ცელოფანი (celopani)
• German: Cellophan (de) n, Zellglas n
• Greek: σελοφάν (el) n (selofán)
• Hungarian: celofán (hu)
• Indonesian: selofan (id)
• Italian: cellofan (it) m
• Japanese: セロファン (ja) (serofan), セロハン (ja) (serohan)
• Korean: 셀로판 (sellopan)
• Malay: selofan
• Maori: takai kōataata
• Polish: celofan (pl) m
• Portuguese: celofane m
• Romanian: celofan (ro) n
• Russian: целлофа́н (ru) m (cellofán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: целофан m

  Roman: celofan (sh) m

• Sicilian: cèlufan m
• Spanish: celofán (es) m, celo (es) m
• Swedish: cellofan (sv) n
• Thai: กระดาษแก้ว (th) (grà-dàat-gɛ̂ɛo), เซลโลเฟน
• Turkish: selofan (tr)

Verb

cellophane (third-person singular simple present cellophanes, present participle cellophaning, simple past and past participle cellophaned)

1. (transitive) To wrap or package in cellophane.

French

Etymology

Genericized trademark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.lɔ.fan/ ~ /se.lɔ.fan/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cellophane m (uncountable)

1. cellophane

Further reading

• “cellophane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

cellophane m

1. cellophane

   Synonym: cellofan