legate

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See also: Legate and lëgatë

English

Etymology

From late Old English, from Old French legat, from Latin legatus (nominal use of perfect passive participle of lego (“bequeath, send as envoy”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

legate (plural legates)

  1. A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
  2. An ambassador or messenger.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: 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.
  3. 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

Verb

legate (third-person singular simple present legates, present participle legating, simple past and past participle legated)

  1. (transitive) To leave as a legacy.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

legate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of legi

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

legate

  1. feminine plural of legato

Participle

legate f pl

  1. feminine plural of legato

Etymology 2

Noun

legate f pl

  1. plural of legata

Etymology 3

Verb

legate

  1. inflection of legare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

lēgāte

  1. vocative singular of lēgātus

Participle

lēgāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of lēgātus

Spanish

Verb

legate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of legar combined with te
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