• n. 畢業證書，學位證書；公文，文書；獎狀
• vt. 發給…畢業文憑

di-, 二。-pl, 折疊，詞源fold. -oma, 名詞后綴。即對折的官方文件，引申義文憑。

diploma

diploma: [17] Etymologically, a diploma is a ‘folded paper’. It comes via Latin diplōma from Greek díplōma; this was a derivative of the verb diploun ‘fold’, which in turn came from diplous ‘double’ (a distant cousin of English double). Since official letters tended to be folded over, díplōma eventually came to mean ‘document, especially one issued by the government’ – the sense in which the word was acquired by English.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the use of the derived Latin adjective diplōmaticus ‘relating to official documents’ with specific reference to the field of international relations led eventually to its French descendant, diplomatique, coming to mean ‘relating to international relations’. English acquired the word as diplomatic in the 18th century.
=> double

diploma (n.)

1640s, "state paper, official document," from Latin diploma, from Greek diploma "license, chart," originally "paper folded double," from diploun "to double, fold over," from diploos "double" (see diploid) + -oma. Specific academic sense is 1680s in English.

1. a BTEC Higher National Diploma in Public Service Studies

BTEC公共服務科高等國家證書

來自《權威詞典》

2. a two-year diploma course

二年制的文憑課程

來自《權威詞典》

3. The course leads to a diploma in psychiatric nursing.

讀完這門課程可以獲得精神病護理文憑.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. She won her diploma in only three years.

她僅用三年時間就取得了畢業文憑.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. She worked hard to earn her music diploma.

她刻苦用功,以求獲得音樂學位證書.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》