## Meanings
1. A person chosen to speak or act for a group of others.
2. To give a task or responsibility to someone else, especially someone who works for you.

## Examples
- Each country sent a delegate to the conference.
- A good manager knows how to delegate work to the team.

## Derived Forms
- delegatable
- delegatee
- delegator
- delegee
- nondelegate
- nondelegated
- redelegate
- subdelegate
- super-delegate
- superdelegate
- undelegated

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: delegat
- Root: dēlēgātus

## Etymology
From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate.

## AI Etymology
delegate comes from Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate. The historical chain includes Middle English delegat, Old French delegat, Latin dēlēgātus. Current senses include A person chosen to speak or act for a group of others and to give a task or responsibility to someone else, especially someone who works for you. English relatives and later formations include delegatable, delegatee, delegator.

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