laureate

See also: lauréate

English

Etymology

First attested during the end of the 15th century, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin laureātus, from laurea (“laurel crown, wreath”, a high reward given to poets and later to the triumphant) + -ātus (forming adjectives indicating possession) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). The verb was formed by metanalysis, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French lauréat.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: lau‧re‧ate

adjective, noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒɹ.i.ət/, /ˈlɔː.ɹi.ət/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.ɹi.ət/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.ət/

verb

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒɹ.i.eɪt/, /ˈlɔː.ɹi.eɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.ɹi.eɪt/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.eɪt/

Adjective

laureate (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
   • 1637 (date written; published 1638), John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

     To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

   • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:

     Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.

   • 2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt‎^[1]:

     Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,

Translations

crowned with laurel

• Armenian: դափնեկիր (hy) (dapʻnekir)
• Bulgarian: увенча́н (bg) (uvenčán)
• French: lauréat (fr) m, lauréate (fr) f
• Greek: δαφνοστεφής (el) (dafnostefís)
• Hungarian: koszorús (hu), babérkoszorús (hu)
• Macedonian: у́венчан (úvenčan)
• Polish: uwieńczony
• Portuguese: laureado (pt) m
• Russian: уве́нчанный (ru) (uvénčannyj)
• Spanish: laureado (es), galardonado (es), ganador (es) m
• Swedish: lagerkransad (sv), lagerkrönt

Noun

laureate (plural laureates)

1. (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.

   Synonym: honoree

   • a. 1658, John Cleveland, An Elegy to Ben Johnson:

     a learn'd laureate

   • 2021 October 8, Jon Henley and Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Maria Ressa, the chief executive and cofounder of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, were named as this year’s laureates by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.

2. A graduate of a university.

Derived terms

• laureateship
• Nobel laureate
• poet laureate

Translations

one crowned with laurel

• Armenian: դափնեկիր (hy) (dapʻnekir)
• Belarusian: лаўрэа́т m (lawreát), лаўрэа́тка f (lawreátka)
• Bulgarian: лауреа́т (bg) m (laureát), лауреа́тка f (laureátka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獲獎者 / 获奖者 (zh) (huòjiǎngzhě)

• Czech: nositel (cs) m, nositelka f, laureát (cs) m, laureátka f
• Dutch: laureaat (nl) m, prijswinnaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: laŭreato
• Estonian: laureaat
• Finnish: palkinnon saaja (winner of a prize)
• French: lauréat (fr) m, lauréate (fr) f
• Georgian: ლაურეატი (laureaṭi)
• German: Laureat (de) m, Laureatin (de) f
• Greek: δαφνοστεφής (el) m or f (dafnostefís)
• Hungarian: díjnyertes (hu), kitüntetett (hu), díjazott (hu), díjas (hu)
• Italian: laureato (it) m, laureata (it) f
• Japanese: 受賞者 (じゅしょうしゃ, jushōsha)
• Kazakh: лауреат (laureat)
• Korean: 수상자(受賞者) (ko) (susangja)
• Kyrgyz: лауреат (laureat)
• Latvian: laureāts m
• Lithuanian: laureatas m
• Macedonian: лавро́носец m (lavrónosec), лауреа́т m (laureát), лауреа́тка f (laureátka)
• Polish: laureat (pl) m, laureatka f
• Portuguese: laureado (pt) m
• Russian: лауреа́т (ru) m (laureát), лауреа́тка (ru) f (laureátka)
• Slovak: nositeľ m, nositeľka f, laureát m, laureátka f
• Spanish: laureado (es), galardonado (es)
• Tajik: лауреат (laureat)
• Ukrainian: лауреа́т (uk) m (laureát), лауреа́тка f (laureátka)
• Uzbek: laureat (uz)

Verb

laureate (third-person singular simple present laureates, present participle laureating, simple past and past participle laureated)

1. (intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

Translations

to honor with a wreath of laurel

• Bulgarian: увенча́вам (bg) impf (uvenčávam), увенча́я pf (uvenčája)
• Macedonian: уве́нчува impf (uvénčuva), у́венча pf (úvenča)
• Polish: uwieńczać (pl) impf, uwieńczyć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: laurear (pt)
• Russian: венча́ть (ru) impf (venčátʹ), уве́нчивать (ru) impf (uvénčivatʹ), увенча́ть (ru) pf (uvenčátʹ)
• Spanish: laurear (es), galardonar (es)
• Swedish: lagerkransa (sv), lagerkröna

Related terms

• lauraceous
• laurel
• laurestine
• lauriferous

Further reading

• “laureate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “laureate”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “laureate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “laureate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

laureate

1. feminine plural of laureato

Participle

laureate f pl

1. feminine plural of laureato

Etymology 2

Noun

laureate f

1. plural of laureata

Latin

Adjective

laureāte

1. vocative masculine singular of laureātus

Spanish

Verb

laureate

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