legate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From late Old English, from Old French legat, from Latin legatus (nominal use of perfect passive participle of lego (“bequeath, send as envoy”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
legate (plural legates)
- A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
- 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.
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
deputy representing the pope
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ambassador or messenger
deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome
Verb[edit]
legate (third-person singular simple present legates, present participle legating, simple past and past participle legated)
- (transitive) To leave as a legacy.
Anagrams[edit]
Esperanto[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
legate
- present adverbial passive participle of legi
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
legate
Participle[edit]
legate f pl
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
legate f pl
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
legate
- inflection of legare:
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /leːˈɡaː.te/, [ɫ̪eːˈɡäːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /leˈɡa.te/, [leˈɡäːt̪e]
Noun[edit]
lēgāte
Participle[edit]
lēgāte
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
legate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of legar combined with te
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