diploma

See also: diplomá, diplôma, and diplomă

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpləʊmə/

• Audio (UK):

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

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.

   get a diploma

   study for a diploma

   hold a further-education diploma

Derived terms

• diploma disease
• diplomaed
• diplomaless
• diplomalike
• diploma mill
• prediploma

Related terms

• diplomacy
• diplomat
• diplomate
• diplomatic

Descendants

• → Bengali: ডিপ্লোমা (ḍiplōma)
• → Burmese: ဒီပလိုမာ (dipa.luima)
• → Hindi: डिप्लोमा (ḍiplomā)
• → Japanese: ディプロマ (dipuroma)
• → Korean: 디플로마 (dipeulloma)
• → Malay: diploma
• → Swahili: diploma
• → Urdu: ڈِپْلوما (ḍiplomā)

Translations

certificate

• Afrikaans: diploma
• Albanian: dëftesë (sq) f, diplomë (sq) f
• Arabic: شَهَادَة (ar) f (šahāda), دِبْلُوم m (diblōm), دِبْلُومَة f (diblōma)
• Armenian: դիպլոմ (hy) (diplom), ատեստատ (hy) (atestat) (high school)
• Azerbaijani: diplom
• Belarusian: дыпло́м m (dyplóm), атэста́т m (atestát) (high school)
• Bengali: ডিপ্লোমা (bn) (ḍiplōma)
• Bulgarian: дипло́ма (bg) f (diplóma), свиде́телство (bg) n (svidételstvo) (certificate)
• Burmese: ဒီပလိုမာ (my) (dipa.luima)
• Catalan: diploma (ca) m, títol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文憑 / 文凭 (zh) (wénpíng), 證書 / 证书 (zh) (zhèngshū), 畢業證書 / 毕业证书 (zh) (bìyè zhèngshū)

• Czech: diplom (cs) m
• Danish: diplom n
• Dutch: diploma (nl) n
• Esperanto: diplomo
• Estonian: diplom
• Finnish: diplomi (fi), päättötodistus (fi), päästötodistus (fi)
• French: diplôme (fr) m
• Galician: diploma m
• Georgian: დიპლომი (diṗlomi), ატესტატი (aṭesṭaṭi) (high school)
• German: Diplom (de) n, Abgangszeugnis (de) n
• Greek: δίπλωμα (el) n (díploma)
• Hebrew: דִּיפְּלוֹמָה (he) f (diplóma)
• Hindi: डिप्लोमा (hi) m (ḍiplomā)
• Hungarian: bizonyítvány (hu), oklevél (hu), mesterlevél (hu), (only for a university degree) diploma (hu)
• Ido: diplomo (io)
• Indonesian: ijazah (id), sertifikat (id)
• Italian: diploma (it)
• Japanese: 卒業証書 (そつぎょうしょうしょ, sotsugyō shōsho), ディプロマ (dipuroma), 学位記 (ja) (がくいき, gakuiki), 修了証 (しゅうりょうしょう, shūryōshō)
• Kazakh: диплом (diplom)
• Khmer: ឌីប្លូម (diiploum), សញ្ញាប័ត្រ (saññaa bat)
• Korean: 졸업장(卒業狀) (ko) (joreopjang), 디플로마 (dipeulloma)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şehade (ku), şehadet (ku), diplom (ku)

• Kyrgyz: диплом (ky) (diplom)
• Lao: ປະກາດສະນີຍະບັດ (pa kāt sa nī nya bat)
• Latin: probatoria f
• Latvian: diploms m
• Limburgish: deplom (li)
• Lithuanian: diplomas m
• Macedonian: дипло́ма f (diplóma)
• Malay: diploma
• Manx: teishtys
• Maori: tītohu
• Marathi: पदविका f (padvikā), डिप्लोमा m (ḍiplomā), पदवीपत्र n (padvīpatra)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: үнэмлэх (mn) (ünemlex), диплом (mn) (diplom)

• Norman: diplôme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diplom n

  Nynorsk: diplom n

• Pashto: ديپلوم (ps) m (deplom), دپلوم (ps) m (deplom), شهادتنامه (ps) f (šahādatnāma)
• Persian: دیپلم (fa) (diplom)
• Polish: dyplom (pl) m, świadectwo (pl) n (certificate)
• Portuguese: diploma (pt) m
• Romanian: diplomă (ro) f
• Russian: дипло́м (ru) m (diplóm), аттеста́т (ru) m (attestát) (high school), свиде́тельство (ru) n (svidételʹstvo) (certificate)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дипло́ма f

  Roman: diplóma (sh) f

• Sicilian: tìtulu m, licenza (scn) f, diploma (scn) m
• Slovak: diplom (sk) m
• Slovene: diploma f
• Spanish: diploma (es) m, título (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: papira
• Swahili: diploma (sw), stashahada
• Swedish: diplom (sv) n, examensbevis (sv) n
• Tagalog: diploma
• Tajik: диплом (diplom)
• Tatar: диплом (diplom)
• Thai: ประกาศนียบัตร (th) (bprà-gaa-sà-nii-yá-bàt)
• Turkish: diploma (tr)
• Turkmen: diplom
• Ukrainian: дипло́м (uk) m (dyplóm), атеста́т (uk) m (atestát) (high school)
• Urdu: ڈِپْلوما m (ḍiplomā)
• Uyghur: دىپلوم (diplom)
• Uzbek: diplom (uz)
• Vietnamese: bằng cấp (vi)
• Volapük: diplom (vo)
• Welsh: tystysgrif (cy)
• Yiddish: דיפּלאָם m (diplom)

Further reading

• “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.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch diploma.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

diploma (plural diplomas)

1. diploma

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīplōma.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

diploma m (plural diplomes)

1. diploma

Derived terms

• diplomar

Further reading

• “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.

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdiˈploː.maː/

• Audio:

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

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• diplomeren
• veterstrikdiploma
• zwemdiploma

Descendants

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

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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
non-attributive possessive – singular	diplomáé	diplomáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	diplomáéi	diplomákéi

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

Compound words

• diplomagyár

Related terms

• diplomata
• diplomatikus
• diplomácia

Further reading

• 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).

Indonesian

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• diploma dua
• diploma empat
• diploma satu
• diploma tiga

Related terms

• diplomasi
• diplomat
• diplomatik
• diplomatis

Further reading

• “diploma”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈplɔ.ma/

• Audio:

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

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma).

Noun

diploma m (plural diplomi)

1. diploma

Related terms

• diplomare

Descendants

• → Turkish: diploma

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

diploma

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

Anagrams

• imploda

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	diplōma	diplōmata
genitive	diplōmatis	diplōmatum
dative	diplōmatī	diplōmatibus
accusative	diplōma	diplōmata
ablative	diplōmate	diplōmatibus
vocative	diplōma	diplōmata

Descendants

• Catalan: diploma
• French: diplôme
  • → Arabic: دِبْلُوم (diblūm), دِبْلُومَة (diblūma)
  • → Czech: diplom
  • → Danish: diplom
  • → Finnish: diplomi
  • → German: Diplom
  • → Khmer: ឌីប្លូម (diiploum)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: diplom
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: diplom
  • → Pashto: ديپلوم (deplom), دپلوم (deplom)
  • → Persian: دیپلم (diplom)
  • → Polish: dyplom
  • → Russian: дипло́м (diplóm)
    • → Armenian: դիպլոմ (diplom)
    • → Azerbaijani: diplom
    • → Belarusian: дыпло́м (dyplóm)
    • → Estonian: diplom
    • → Georgian: დიპლომი (diṗlomi)
    • → Kazakh: диплом (diplom)
    • → Kyrgyz: диплом (diplom)
    • → Latvian: diploms
    • → Lithuanian: diplomas
    • → Mongolian: диплом (diplom)
    • → Tajik: диплом (diplom)
    • → Tatar: диплом (diplom)
    • → Turkmen: diplom
    • → Ukrainian: дипло́м (dyplóm)
    • → Uyghur: دىپلوم (diplom)
    • → Uzbek: diplom
    • → Yiddish: דיפּלאָם (diplom)
  • → Slovak: diplom
  • → Swedish: diplom
• Galician: diploma
• Italian: diploma
  • → Turkish: diploma
• Piedmontese: diplòma
• Portuguese: diploma
• Romanian: diplomă
• Spanish: diploma
• → Albanian: diploma
• → Bulgarian: диплома (diploma)
• → Dutch: diploma
  • Afrikaans: diploma
  • → Caribbean Javanese: diplomah, dhiplomah
  • → Indonesian: diploma
• → English: diploma
  • → Bengali: ডিপ্লোমা (ḍiplōma)
  • → Burmese: ဒီပလိုမာ (dipa.luima)
  • → Hindi: डिप्लोमा (ḍiplomā)
  • → Japanese: ディプロマ (dipuroma)
  • → Korean: 디플로마 (dipeulloma)
  • → Malay: diploma
  • → Swahili: diploma
  • → Urdu: ڈِپْلوما (ḍiplomā)
• → Esperanto: diplomo
• → Hungarian: diploma
• → Indonesian: diplomo
• → Macedonian: диплома (diploma)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: дипло́ма
  • Latin script: diplóma
• → Sicilian: dichiuma (Old Sicilian), diploma (scn) (learnt)
• → Slovene: diploma

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 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• diplomene

Noun

diploma n

1. definite plural of diplom

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

diploma n

1. definite plural of diplom

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin diplōma.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈplõ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈplõ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈplo.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /diˈplo.mɐ/

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

Noun

diploma m (plural diplomas)

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

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

Derived terms

• diplomar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈplõ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈplõ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈplo.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /diˈplɔ.mɐ/

• Hyphenation: di‧plo‧ma

Verb

diploma

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French diplômer.

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

    conjugation of diploma (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a diploma
gerund			diplomând
past participle			diplomat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	diplomez	diplomezi	diplomează	diplomăm	diplomați	diplomează
	imperfect	diplomam	diplomai	diploma	diplomam	diplomați	diplomau
	simple perfect	diplomai	diplomași	diplomă	diplomarăm	diplomarăți	diplomară
	pluperfect	diplomasem	diplomaseși	diplomase	diplomaserăm	diplomaserăți	diplomaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să diplomez	să diplomezi	să diplomeze	să diplomăm	să diplomați	să diplomeze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		diplomează			diplomați
	negative		nu diploma			nu diplomați

References

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

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

diplóma f (Cyrillic spelling дипло́ма)

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

Declension

Declension of diploma

	singular	plural
nominative	diploma	diplome
genitive	diplome	diploma
dative	diplomi	diplomama
accusative	diplomu	diplome
vocative	diplomo	diplome
locative	diplomi	diplomama
instrumental	diplomom	diplomama

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈploma/ [d̪iˈplo.ma]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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

Etymology 1

From Latin diplōma.

Noun

diploma m (plural diplomas)

1. diploma

Derived terms

• diplomar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

diploma

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

Further reading

• “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

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English diploma.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

diploma class IX (plural diploma class X)

1. diploma

   Synonym: stashahada

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیڀلومه, from Italian diploma

Pronunciation

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

Noun

diploma (definite accusative diplomayı, plural diplomalar)

1. (education) diploma

Declension

Declension of diploma

singular plural nominative diploma diplomalar definite accusative diplomayı diplomaları dative diplomaya diplomalara locative diplomada diplomalarda ablative diplomadan diplomalardan genitive diplomanın diplomaların Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular diplomam diplomalarım 2nd singular diploman diplomaların 3rd singular diploması diplomaları 1st plural diplomamız diplomalarımız 2nd plural diplomanız diplomalarınız 3rd plural diplomaları diplomaları definite accusative singular plural 1st singular diplomamı diplomalarımı 2nd singular diplomanı diplomalarını 3rd singular diplomasını diplomalarını 1st plural diplomamızı diplomalarımızı 2nd plural diplomanızı diplomalarınızı 3rd plural diplomalarını diplomalarını dative singular plural 1st singular diplomama diplomalarıma 2nd singular diplomana diplomalarına 3rd singular diplomasına diplomalarına 1st plural diplomamıza diplomalarımıza 2nd plural diplomanıza diplomalarınıza 3rd plural diplomalarına diplomalarına locative singular plural 1st singular diplomamda diplomalarımda 2nd singular diplomanda diplomalarında 3rd singular diplomasında diplomalarında 1st plural diplomamızda diplomalarımızda 2nd plural diplomanızda diplomalarınızda 3rd plural diplomalarında diplomalarında ablative singular plural 1st singular diplomamdan diplomalarımdan 2nd singular diplomandan diplomalarından 3rd singular diplomasından diplomalarından 1st plural diplomamızdan diplomalarımızdan 2nd plural diplomanızdan diplomalarınızdan 3rd plural diplomalarından diplomalarından genitive singular plural 1st singular diplomamın diplomalarımın 2nd singular diplomanın diplomalarının 3rd singular diplomasının diplomalarının 1st plural diplomamızın diplomalarımızın 2nd plural diplomanızın diplomalarınızın 3rd plural diplomalarının diplomalarının Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular diplomayım diplomalarım 2nd singular diplomasın diplomalarsın 3rd singular diploma diplomadır diplomalar diplomalardır 1st plural diplomayız diplomalarız 2nd plural diplomasınız diplomalarsınız 3rd plural diplomalar diplomalardır

Related terms

• diplomasi
• diplomat

References

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