diplomate
English edit
Noun edit
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, stanza XV, page 16:
- You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people's heart in his breast?
Verb edit
diplomate (third-person singular simple present diplomates, present participle diplomating, simple past and past participle diplomated)
- (transitive) To award a diploma to.
References edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from diplomatique.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
diplomate m or f by sense (plural diplomates)
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Further reading edit
- “diplomate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Adjective edit
diplomate
Noun edit
diplomate f
Latin edit
Noun edit
dīplōmate
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French diplomate.
Noun edit
diplomate m or f (plural diplomates)
Spanish edit
Verb edit
diplomate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of diplomar combined with te