diploma

See also: diplomá and diplôma

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/

• Audio (UK)

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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

• diplomacy
• diplomat
• diplomatic

Translations

certificate

• Afrikaans: diploma
• Arabic: شِهَادَة‎ f (šihāda)
• Armenian: դիպլոմ (hy) (diplom), ատեստատ (hy) (atestat) (high school)
• Bulgarian: диплома (bg) f (diploma)
• Catalan: diploma (ca) m, títol (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: diplom (cs) m
• Danish: diplom n
• Dutch: diploma (nl) n
• Esperanto: diplomo
• Finnish: diplomi (fi), päättötodistus (fi), päästötodistus (fi)
• French: diplôme (fr) m
• Galician: diploma m
• Georgian: დიპლომი (diṗlomi)
• German: Diplom (de) n
• Greek: δίπλωμα (el) n (díploma)
• Hindi: डिप्लोमा (hi) (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 (ja) (そつぎょうしょうしょ, sotsugyō shōsho), ディプロマ (dipuroma)

• Limburgish: deplom
• Manx: teishtys
• Maori: tītohu
• Mongolian: үнэмлэх (mn) (ünemleh)
• Norman: diplôme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diplom n

  Nynorsk: diplom n

• Persian: دیپلم‎ (fa) (diplom)
• Polish: dyplom (pl) m
• Portuguese: diploma (pt) m
• Russian: дипло́м (ru) m (diplóm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дипло́ма f

  Roman: diplóma (sh) f

• Spanish: diploma (es) m, título (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: papira
• Swahili: diploma (sw)
• Swedish: diplom (sv) n, examensbevis (sv)
• Turkish: diploma (tr)
• Ukrainian: диплом (uk) (dyplóm)
• Urdu: دانشنامہ‎
• Welsh: tystysgrif (cy)
• Yiddish: דיפּלאָם‎ m (diplom)

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.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch diploma.

Noun

diploma (plural diplomas)

1. diploma

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

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

1. diploma

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Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

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

• diplomagyár

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma).

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

diploma m (plural diplomi)

1. diploma

Verb

diploma

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

Anagrams

• imploda

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /diːˈploː.ma/, [diːˈpɫoː.ma]

Noun

dīplōma n (genitive dīplōmatis); third declension

1. letter of recommendation
2. diploma

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
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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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• diplomene

Noun

diploma n

1. definite plural of diplom

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

diploma n

1. definite plural of diplom

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Portuguese

Noun

diploma m (plural diplomas)

1. diploma

Verb

diploma

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of diplomar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of diplomar

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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

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Spanish

Noun

diploma m (plural diplomas)

1. diploma