diploma

See also: diplomá and diplôma

English

Etymology

From Latin diploma, from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma, folded paper, license), from διπλόω (diplóō, I double, fold over), from διπλόος (diplóos, double).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈpləʊmə/[1]
  • (file)

Noun

diploma (plural diplomas or diplomata)[1]

  1. A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.

Translations

References

  1. diploma, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Further reading

  • diploma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • diploma in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch diploma.

Noun

diploma (plural diplomas)

  1. diploma

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

diploma n (plural diploma's, diminutive diplomatje n or diplomaatje n)

  1. diploma

Hungarian

Etymology

From New Latin diploma, from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma, folded paper, license).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdiplomɒ]
  • Hyphenation: dip‧lo‧ma

Noun

diploma (plural diplomák)

  1. (university/college) degree and its certificate (on completion of higher education)
    Synonym: végzettség
  2. diploma, certificate
    Synonyms: oklevél, bizonyítvány, tanúsítvány

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative diploma diplomák
accusative diplomát diplomákat
dative diplomának diplomáknak
instrumental diplomával diplomákkal
causal-final diplomáért diplomákért
translative diplomává diplomákká
terminative diplomáig diplomákig
essive-formal diplomaként diplomákként
essive-modal
inessive diplomában diplomákban
superessive diplomán diplomákon
adessive diplománál diplomáknál
illative diplomába diplomákba
sublative diplomára diplomákra
allative diplomához diplomákhoz
elative diplomából diplomákból
delative diplomáról diplomákról
ablative diplomától diplomáktól
Possessive forms of diploma
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. diplomám diplomáim
2nd person sing. diplomád diplomáid
3rd person sing. diplomája diplomái
1st person plural diplománk diplomáink
2nd person plural diplomátok diplomáitok
3rd person plural diplomájuk diplomáik

Derived terms

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

diploma m (plural diplomi)

  1. diploma

Verb

diploma

  1. third-person singular present indicative of diplomare
  2. second-person singular imperative of diplomare

References

  1. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), diploma”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma, folded paper, license).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /diːˈploː.ma/, [diːˈpɫoː.ma]

Noun

dīplōma n (genitive dīplōmatis); third declension

  1. letter of recommendation
  2. diploma

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dīplōma dīplōmata
Genitive dīplōmatis dīplōmatum
Dative dīplōmatī dīplōmatibus
Accusative dīplōma dīplōmata
Ablative dīplōmate dīplōmatibus
Vocative dīplōma dīplōmata

Descendants

References

  • diploma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • diploma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • diploma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • diploma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • diploma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

diploma n

  1. definite plural of diplom

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

diploma n

  1. definite plural of diplom

Portuguese

Noun

diploma m (plural diplomas)

  1. diploma

Verb

diploma

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of diplomar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of diplomar

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

diplóma f (Cyrillic spelling дипло́ма)

  1. (education) diploma
  2. (education) degree

Declension


Spanish

Noun

diploma m (plural diplomas)

  1. diploma
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