protocol
Borrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”), from Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (prōtókollon, “first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl/
(General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɑl/, /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɔl/, /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkoʊl/
Hyphenation: pro‧to‧col
protocol (countable and uncountable, plural protocols)
(now chiefly historical) The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it. [from 15th c.]
(international law, now rare) An official record of a diplomatic meeting or negotiation; later specifically, a draft document setting out agreements to be signed into force by a subsequent formal treaty. [from 17th c.]
(international law) An amendment to an official treaty. [from 19th c.]
2002, Philippe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law, p. 917 n. 253:
The 1992 Protocol amended the definitions of other terms, including ‘ship’, ‘oil’ and ‘incident’: Art. 2.
The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page. [from 19th c.]
The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc. [from 19th c.]
(sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment. [from 19th c.]
(sciences) The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment. [from 19th c.]
The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state. [from 19th c.]
(by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group. [from 20th c.]
(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network. [from 20th c.]
2006, Zheng & Ni, Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing, p. 444:
An exception is Jabber, which is designed based on an open protocol called the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).
(medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order. [from 20th c.]
(Roman Catholicism) The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
(object-oriented programming) In some programming languages, a data type declaring a set of members that must be implemented by a class or other data type.
(original notes of observations made during an experiment): procedure
(official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries): procedure, policy
(accepted code of conduct): policy
(data type defining a set of members): interface
protocol (third-person singular simple present protocols, present participle protocoling or protocolling, simple past and past participle protocoled or protocolled)
(obsolete, transitive) To make a protocol of.
(obsolete, intransitive) To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.
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Borrowed from Latin protocollum.
IPA(key): (Central) [pɾu.tuˈkɔl]
IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [pɾo.toˈkɔl]
protocol m (plural protocols)
protocol
patracol
protocol·lari
protocol·litzar
“protocol” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
From Middle Dutch protocol. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
IPA(key): /ˌproː.toːˈkɔl/
Hyphenation: pro‧to‧col
Rhymes: -ɔl
protocol n (plural protocols or protocollen, diminutive protocolletje n)
protocol (collection of rules and procedures)
protocol (book containing official documents)
protocol (official record of minutes or agreements)
→ Papiamentu: protokòl
Borrowed from French protocole and German Protokoll.
protocol n (plural protocoale)
protocol
From Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”), from Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (prōtókollon, “first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
protocol m (plural protocols)
minutes (of meeting)
From English protocol.
IPA(key): /ˈprɔtɔkɔl/
protocol m (plural protocolau)
protocol
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “protocol”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies