## Etymology
From diplomat (from French diplomate) plus the agentive suffix -ist; diplomat traces to Latin diploma ('official document'), from Greek diploma ('folded paper'), from diploun ('to fold double').

## AI Etymology
Diplomatist is from diplomat (from French diplomate) plus the agentive suffix -ist; diplomat traces to Latin diploma ('official document'), from Greek diploma ('folded paper'), from diploun ('to fold double'). The ancestry passes through Latin diploma, Ancient Greek díplōma, and Ancient Greek diplóos. The suffix -ist marks an adherent, practitioner, or associated person, so the English form is shaped by recognizable word formation as well as by its inherited or borrowed base. In present use as a noun, it means "a person skilled in diplomacy; a diplomat", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include diplomat, diplomacy, diplomatic, and diploma.

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