legate

From late Old English, from Old French legat, from Latin legatus (nominal use of perfect passive participle of lego (“bequeath, send as envoy”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡɪt/, /ˈlɛɡət/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡɪt, -ɛɡət

legate (plural legates)

1. A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
2. An ambassador or messenger.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:

     Moſt great and puiſant Monarke of the earth,
     Your Baſſoe wil accompliſh your beheſt:
     And ſhew your pleaſure to the Perſean,
     As fits the Legate of the ſtately Turke.

   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:

     The dark figure on the raised white terrace; legate of the sun facing the sun; the most ancient royal power.

3. The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.
   • 1911, Rudyard Kipling, “The Roman Centurion’s Song”, in The History of England:

     Legate, I had the news last night—my cohort ordered home
     By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome.

• legatine
• prolegate

legate (third-person singular simple present legates, present participle legating, simple past and past participle legated)

1. (transitive) To leave as a legacy.

• Teagle, eaglet, gelate, teagle, telega

• IPA^(key): /leˈɡate/
• Rhymes: -ate

legate

1. present adverbial passive participle of legi

legate

1. feminine plural of legato

legate f pl

1. feminine plural of legato

legate f pl

1. plural of legata

legate

1. inflection of legare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• gelate

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫeːˈɡaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [leˈɡaː.t̪e]

lēgāte

1. vocative singular of lēgātus

lēgāte

1. vocative masculine singular of lēgātus

legate

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