diploma
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]
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Noun
diploma (plural diplomas or diplomata)[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.
Related terms
Translations
certificate
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References
- “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.
Dutch
Pronunciation
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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)
- (university/college) degree and its certificate (on completion of higher education)
- Synonym: végzettség
- diploma, certificate
- Synonyms: oklevél, bizonyítvány, tanúsítvány
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
- 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
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Verb
diploma
References
- Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “diploma”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma, “folded paper, license”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diːˈploː.ma/, [diːˈpɫoː.ma]
Inflection
Third declension neuter.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | dīplōma | dīplōmata |
Genitive | dīplōmatis | dīplōmatum |
Dative | dīplōmatī | dīplōmatibus |
Accusative | dīplōma | dīplōmata |
Ablative | dīplōmate | dīplōmatibus |
Vocative | dīplōma | dīplōmata |
Descendants
- Russian: дипло́м (diplóm)
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
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