ambassade
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From French ambassade. Doublet of embassy.
Noun edit
ambassade (plural ambassades)
- (obsolete) The mission of an ambassador.
- 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:
- Sir Henry Killigrew, after Ambaſſades and meſſages, and many other employments of peace and warre, in his Princes ſeruice, to the good of his Countrey, hath made choyce of a retyred eſtate
- (obsolete) An embassy.
- 1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England
- […] thereupon the queen's majesty, trusting that the king of Spain was of the same mind, she did send a solemn ambassade of her privy-counsellors, whereof one was an ancient earl of the realm, the other also an ancient baron of the same, and others of the council of her state […]
- 1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England
References edit
- “ambassade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From French ambassade, from Old French ambassade, from Old Italian ambasciata (“diplomatic mission”), from Old Occitan ambayssada, derivative of ambaissa (“service”); see ambassador.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Noun edit
ambassade c (singular definite ambassaden, plural indefinite ambassader)
Declension edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ambassade | ambassaden | ambassader | ambassaderne |
genitive | ambassades | ambassadens | ambassaders | ambassadernes |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Greenlandic: ambassade
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French ambassade, ultimately replacing ambassaat as the general term.
Noun edit
ambassade f (plural ambassades, diminutive ambassadetje n)
- An embassy, diplomatic legation to permanently represent a foreign state at (the highest) embassador's level.
- An ambassadorial mission.
- An embassy building.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
From ambassaat, influenced by the above and ambassadeur.
Noun edit
ambassade m (plural ambassaden, diminutive ambassaatje n)
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French ambassade.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ambassade f (plural ambassades)
- an embassy, diplomatic representation in a foreign state, notably headed by an ambassador
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: ambasadë
- → Belarusian: амбасада (ambasada)
- → Czech: ambásada
- → Danish: ambassade
- → Greenlandic: ambassade
- → Dutch: ambassade
- → English: ambassade
- → Irish: ambasáid
- → Northern Kurdish: ambasad
- → Lithuanian: ambasada
- → Luxembourgish: Ambassade
- → Macedonian: амбасада (ambasada)
- → Malagasy: ambasady
- → Norman: ambassade
- → Norwegian: ambassade
- → Northern Sami: ambassáda
- → Polish: ambasada
- → Romanian: ambasadă
- → Romansch: ambassada
- → Serbo-Croatian: ambasada / амбасада
- → Slovak: ambasáda
- → Swedish: ambassad
- → Yiddish: אַמבאַסאַדע (ambasade)
Further reading edit
- “ambassade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
First attested circa 1350 as ambaxade, circa 1420 as ambassade. From Old French ambassade, from Italian ambasciata (“diplomatic mission”).
Noun edit
ambassade f (plural ambassades)
- embassy (temporary mission representing a sovereign state)
Descendants edit
- French: ambassade (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- ambassade on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ambassade.
Noun edit
ambassade f (plural ambassades)
Related terms edit
- ambassadeu (“ambassador”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ambactus, via French ambassade.
Noun edit
ambassade m (definite singular ambassaden, indefinite plural ambassader, definite plural ambassadene)
- an embassy
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Northern Sami: ambassáda
References edit
- “ambassade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ambactus, via French ambassade.
Noun edit
ambassade m (definite singular ambassaden, indefinite plural ambassadar, definite plural ambassadane)
- an embassy
Related terms edit
References edit
- “ambassade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.