diplomate

From diploma +‎ -ate (suffix forming nouns denoting rank or office).^[1]

diplomate (plural diplomates)

1. 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?

From diploma +‎ -ate (suffix forming verbs).^[2]

diplomate (third-person singular simple present diplomates, present participle diplomating, simple past and past participle diplomated)

1. (transitive) To award a diploma to.

• “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.

Back-formation from diplomatique.

• IPA^(key): /di.plɔ.mat/

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diplomate m or f by sense (plural diplomates)

1. diplomat
2. pastry made from leftover pastries, crushed biscuits

• diplomatiste

• diplomatie
• diplôme

• “diplomate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

diplomate

1. feminine plural of diplomato

diplomate f

1. plural of diplomata

dīplōmate

1. ablative singular of dīplōma

Borrowed from French diplomate.

diplomate m or f (plural diplomates)

1. (Jersey) diplomat

diplomate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of diplomar combined with te