The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδίπλωμα“double-folded document”
- French · derived fromdiplomate
- English todaydiplomat
From French diplomate, a back-formation from diplomatique (“diplomatic”), ultimately from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma, “double-folded document”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδίπλωμα all →
diploma
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.