ambassade
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French ambassade. Doublet of embassy.
NounEdit
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 752813518:
- 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
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ambassade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French ambassade, from Old French ambassade, from Old Italian ambasciata (“diplomatic mission”), from Old Occitan ambayssada, derivative of ambaissa (“service”); see ambassador.
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -aːdə
NounEdit
ambassade c (singular definite ambassaden, plural indefinite ambassader)
DeclensionEdit
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | ambassade | ambassaden | ambassader | ambassaderne |
| genitive | ambassades | ambassadens | ambassaders | ambassadernes |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Greenlandic: ambassade
Further readingEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from French ambassade, ultimately replacing ambassaat as the general term.
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From ambassaat, influenced by the above and ambassadeur.
NounEdit
ambassade m (plural ambassaden, diminutive ambassaatje n)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French ambassade.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ambassade f (plural ambassades)
- an embassy, diplomatic representation in a foreign state, notably headed by an ambassador
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → 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 readingEdit
- “ambassade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
First attested circa 1350 as ambaxade, circa 1420 as ambassade. From Old French ambassade, from Italian ambasciata (“diplomatic mission”).
NounEdit
ambassade f (plural ambassades)
- embassy (temporary mission representing a sovereign state)
DescendantsEdit
- French: ambassade (see there for further descendants)
ReferencesEdit
- ambassade on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French ambassade.
NounEdit
ambassade f (plural ambassades)
Related termsEdit
- ambassadeu (“ambassador”)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin ambactus, via French ambassade.
NounEdit
ambassade m (definite singular ambassaden, indefinite plural ambassader, definite plural ambassadene)
- an embassy
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Northern Sami: ambassáda
ReferencesEdit
- “ambassade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin ambactus, via French ambassade.
NounEdit
ambassade m (definite singular ambassaden, indefinite plural ambassadar, definite plural ambassadane)
- an embassy
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “ambassade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.