diploma

PIE word
*dwóh₁

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

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

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈploʊmə/

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.

   get a diploma

   study for a diploma

   hold a further-education diploma

• diplomacy
• diplomat
• diplomate
• diplomatic

• “diploma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “diploma”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

From Dutch diploma.

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diploma (plural diplomas)

1. diploma

Borrowed from Latin dīplōma.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [diˈplo.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [diˈplo.ma]

diploma m (plural diplomes)

1. diploma

• diplomar

• “diploma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “diploma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “diploma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “diploma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin diplōma, from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma). The sense “diploma” derived from French diplôme.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˌdiˈploː.maː/

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• Hyphenation: di‧plo‧ma
• Rhymes: -oːmaː

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

1. diploma
2. (obsolete) deed, official document entitling one to something

• Afrikaans: diploma
• → Caribbean Javanese: diplomah, dhiplomah
• → Indonesian: diploma

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈdiplomɒ]
• Hyphenation: dip‧lo‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

diploma (plural diplomák)

1. (university/college) degree and its certificate (on completion of higher education)

   Synonym: végzettség

2. diploma, certificate

   Synonyms: oklevél, bizonyítvány, tanúsítvány

• diploma in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• diploma in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

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

• IPA^(key): /diˈploma/
• Rhymes: -ma, -a
• Hyphenation: dip‧lo‧ma

diploma (plural diploma-diploma)

1. diploma:
   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
   2. (education) a qualification level of a higher level of vocational training than sekolah menengah kejuruan up to an equivalent level of bachelor's degree

• “diploma” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /diˈplɔ.ma/

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• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Hyphenation: di‧plò‧ma

From Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma).^[1]

diploma m (plural diplomi)

1. diploma

• diplomare

• → Turkish: diploma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

diploma

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

• imploda

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪˈpɫoː.ma], [dɪpˈɫoː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪iˈplɔː.ma], [d̪ipˈlɔː.ma]

diplōma n (genitive diplōmatis); third declension

1. letter of recommendation
2. a document drawn up by a magistrate, assuring to the holder some favor or privilege, a diploma

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

• diplomene

diploma n

1. definite plural of diplom

diploma n

1. definite plural of diplom

Borrowed from Latin diplōma.

• Rhymes: -omɐ
• Hyphenation: di‧plo‧ma

diploma m (plural diplomas)

1. diploma
2. bill (legislative), legislative action.

   O Presidente promulga o diploma legislativo. ― The President promulgates the [following] legislative instrument.

• diplomar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: di‧plo‧ma

diploma

1. inflection of diplomar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French diplômer.

a diploma (third-person singular present diplomează, past participle diplomat) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive) to graduate; to attribute a diploma to

• diploma in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

diplóma f (Cyrillic spelling дипло́ма)

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

• IPA^(key): /diˈploma/ [d̪iˈplo.ma]

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• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: di‧plo‧ma

From Latin diplōma.

diploma m (plural diplomas)

1. diploma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

diploma

1. inflection of diplomar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “diploma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English diploma.

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diploma class IX (plural diploma class X)

1. Synonym: stashahada

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیڀلومه, from Italian diploma

• IPA^(key): /dipɫoˈmɑ/, [d̪ip.ɫ̪o̞ˈmɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑ
• Hyphenation: dip‧lo‧ma

diploma (definite accusative diplomayı, plural diplomalar)

1. (education)

• “diploma”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “diploma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük