diplomate
English
Noun
diplomate (plural diplomates)
- A professional who has earned a diploma.
- 1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Napoleon III in Italy”, in Poems before Congress, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 987688, stanza XV, page 16:
- You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people's heart in his breast?
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Verb
diplomate (third-person singular simple present diplomates, present participle diplomating, simple past and past participle diplomated)
- (transitive) To award a diploma to.
References
- diplomate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “diplomate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
French
Etymology
Back-formation from diplomatique.
Pronunciation
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Noun
diplomate m or f by sense (plural diplomates)
- diplomat
Related terms
- diplomatie
- diplomatique
- diplôme
Descendants
- → Czech: diplomat
- → Danish: diplomat
- → German: Diplomat
- → Norwegian Bokmål: diplomat
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: diplomat
- → Swedish: diplomat
- → Turkish: diplomat
Further reading
- “diplomate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Adjective
diplomate
- feminine plural of diplomato
Noun
diplomate f
- plural of diplomata
Latin
Noun
dīplōmate
- ablative singular of dīplōma
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French diplomate.
Noun
diplomate m or f (plural diplomates)
- (Jersey) diplomat