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A legate is an important person sent to speak and act for someone very powerful. In the Church, a legate is sent by the Pope to a country or to a big meeting, with the Pope's power for that job. In older history, Rome also sent legates — high officers who stood for the state or for a general. The word is formal and belongs to history, church, and talks between countries, not to everyday chat. You would not call a school messenger a legate. Though actually, English also has a rare old verb legate, meaning to leave property in a will; that is not this sense.
特使（尤指教宗特使）。台灣天主教慣稱「教宗」，中國大陸較常說「教皇」。
組成From Old English legat(e), from Old French legat, from Latin lēgātus, from lēgō (“send as an envoy; leave in a will”). The person sent became the noun.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Legatename
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A surname.
legatenoun詞源 1/ˈlɛɡɪt/
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A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
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An ambassador or messenger.
- Moſt great and puiſant Monarke of the earth, Your Baſſoe wil accompliſh your beheſt: And ſhew your pleaſure to the Perſean, As fits the Legate of the ſtately Turke.
- The dark figure on the raised white terrace; legate of the sun facing the sun; the most ancient royal power.
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The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.
- Legate, I had the news last night—my cohort ordered home By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome.
legateverb詞源 2/ləˈɡeɪt/
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To leave as a legacy.
legatenoun詞源 3/ˈlɛɡɪt/
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obsoleteA legacy or bequest.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。