Legate Legate

Legate - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Attache, Chancellor, Charge, Commissar, Commissary, Commissioner, Consul, Delegate, Diplomat, Diplomatic, Diplomatist, Emissary, Envoy, Herald, Messenger

The word legate comes from the Latin legare, to send. The broad meaning is a person sent as a representative of another person. There are several uses for this word:

  • A legate is a member of a diplomatic embassy.
  • In Roman times, a legate was an official assistant to a general or governor of a province.
  • Papal legate is a messenger from the Holy See to the nations. The highest rank of a legate is Legate a latere, who had to be in the rank of a cardinal.
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Example Usage of Legate
banatsoftware: lumea are semnale Legate de renuntarea la facilitatile fiscale pentru programatori
EusebiuMe: ai dorinte marete mai @Marianaiosif Legate de feedback, traim in romania unde te crezi? eu m-am resemnat de mult
andreibobocea: @weeb0 ce-i drept nu am stat sa ma informez in amanunt. detalii Legate de ce ofera? in ce sens?
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