diplomate

English

Noun

diplomate (plural diplomates)

1. A professional who has earned a diploma.
   • 1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Napoleon III in Italy”, in Poems before Congress, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 16:

     You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people's heart in his breast?

Verb

diplomate (third-person singular simple present diplomates, present participle diplomating, simple past and past participle diplomated)

1. (transitive) To award a diploma to.

References

• “diplomate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “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)

1. diplomat
2. pastry made from leftover pastries, crushed biscuits

Derived terms

• diplomatiste

Related terms

• diplomatie
• diplomatique
• diplôme

Descendants

• → Czech: diplomat
• → Danish: diplomat
• → German: Diplomat
• → Norwegian Bokmål: diplomat
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: diplomat
• → Swedish: diplomat
• → Persian: دیپلمات (diplomât)
• → Turkish: diplomat

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

diplomate

1. feminine plural of diplomato

Noun

diplomate f

1. plural of diplomata

Latin

Noun

dīplōmate

1. ablative singular of dīplōma

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French diplomate.

Noun

diplomate m or f (plural diplomates)

1. (Jersey) diplomat

Spanish

Verb

diplomate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of diplomar combined with te