Other forms: diplomats
A diplomat is the official who represents their country politely abroad. A senior diplomat, expel the diplomats, a career diplomat.
Diplomatic immunity protects them from arrest in the host country, which exists so that governments cannot pressure each other's staff and is occasionally abused. Expelling diplomats is the standard way to show anger short of breaking relations. The Greek behind it means a folded document.
1noundiplomatAn official who represents their country abroad.
“The diplomat spent years working at the embassy in Moscow.”
diplomat is an official.
French diplomate comes from Greek diploma, a folded document — the credentials an envoy carried.
Ancient Greek
δίπλωμα — double-folded document
French
diplomate
English, today
diplomat
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From French diplomate, a back-formation from diplomatique (“diplomatic”), ultimately from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (“double-folded document”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA