# diploma
## 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: /dɪˈpləʊmə/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Noun

diploma (plural diplomas or diplomata)
* 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)

#### References

* ↑ “diploma, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

#### 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:(file)

### Noun

diploma (plural diplomas)
* diploma

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīplōma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [diˈplo.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [diˈplo.ma]

### Noun

diploma m (plural diplomes)
* diploma

#### Derived terms

* diplomar

### Further reading

* “diploma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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: /ˌdiˈploː.maː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: di‧plo‧ma
* Rhymes: -oːmaː

### Noun

diploma n (plural diploma's, diminutive diplomaatje n)
* diploma
* (obsolete) deed, official document entitling one to something

#### Derived terms

* diplomeren
* veterstrikdiploma
* zwemdiploma

#### Descendants

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

### References

* ↑ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdiplomɒ]
* Hyphenation: dip‧lo‧ma
* Rhymes: -mɒ

### Noun

diploma (plural diplomák)
* (university/college) degree and its certificate (on completion of higher education)
    Synonym: végzettség
* diploma, certificate
    Synonyms: oklevél, bizonyítvány, tanúsítvány

#### Derived terms

* diplomagyár

#### Related terms

* diplomata
* diplomatikus
* diplomácia

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* diploma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: 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: /diˈploma/
* Rhymes: -ma, -a
* Hyphenation: dip‧lo‧ma

### Noun

diploma (plural diploma-diploma)
* diploma:
** a document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.
** (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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diˈplɔ.ma/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔma
* Hyphenation: di‧plò‧ma

### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma).

#### Noun

diploma m (plural diplomi)
* diploma

##### Related terms

* diplomare

##### Descendants

* → Turkish: diploma

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

diploma
* inflection of diplomare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

#### References

* ↑ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “diploma”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

### Anagrams

* imploda

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /diˈploː.ma/, [d̪ɪˈpɫ̪oːmä] or IPA: /dipˈloː.ma/, [d̪ɪpˈɫ̪oːmä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /diˈplo.ma/, [d̪iˈplɔːmä] or IPA: /dipˈlo.ma/, [d̪ipˈlɔːmä]

### Noun

diplōma n (genitive diplōmatis); third declension
* letter of recommendation
* 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).

#### 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
* definite plural of diplom

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

diploma n
* definite plural of diplom

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin diplōma.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒiˈplõ.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒiˈplõ.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒiˈplo.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /diˈplo.mɐ/
* Rhymes: -omɐ
* Hyphenation: di‧plo‧ma

#### Noun

diploma m (plural diplomas)
* diploma
* 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: /d͡ʒiˈplõ.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒiˈplõ.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒiˈplo.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /diˈplɔ.mɐ/
* Hyphenation: di‧plo‧ma

#### Verb

diploma
* inflection of diplomar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French diplômer.

### Verb

a diploma (third-person singular present diplomează, past participle diplomat) 1st conjugation
* (transitive) to graduate; to attribute a diploma to

#### Conjugation
### 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)
* (education) diploma
* (education) degree

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diˈploma/ [d̪iˈplo.ma]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -oma
* Syllabification: di‧plo‧ma

### Etymology 1

From Latin diplōma.

#### Noun

diploma m (plural diplomas)
* diploma

##### Derived terms

* diplomar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

diploma
* inflection of diplomar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** 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], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English diploma.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

diploma class IX (plural diploma class X)
* diploma
    Synonym: stashahada

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیڀلومه, from Italian diploma

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dipɫoˈmɑ/, [d̪ip.ɫ̪o̞ˈmɑ]
* Rhymes: -ɑ
* Hyphenation: dip‧lo‧ma

### Noun

diploma (definite accusative diplomayı, plural diplomalar)
* (education) diploma

#### Declension

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