Word Origin Summary

Diploma is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. δίπλωμαAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• diplomacy

  English · derived from

• diploma

  Indonesian · derived from

• diflomasiyya

  Hausa · derived from

• diplomasia

  Swahili · borrowed from

• diplômasia

  Bara Malagasy · borrowed from

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