ἀποστάτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.pos.tá.tɛːs/ → /a.posˈta.tis/ → /a.posˈta.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.pos.tá.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.posˈta.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.posˈta.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.posˈta.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.posˈta.tis/

Noun

ᾰ̓ποστᾰ́της • (apostátēs) m (genitive ᾰ̓ποστᾰ́του); first declension

1. deserter, rebel

Declension

First declension of ὁ ἀποστάτης; τοῦ ἀποστάτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀποστάτης ho apostátēs	τὼ ἀποστάτᾱ tṑ apostátā	οἱ ἀποστάται hoi apostátai
Genitive	τοῦ ἀποστάτου toû apostátou	τοῖν ἀποστάταιν toîn apostátain	τῶν ἀποστατῶν tôn apostatôn
Dative	τῷ ἀποστάτῃ tôi apostátēi	τοῖν ἀποστάταιν toîn apostátain	τοῖς ἀποστάταις toîs apostátais
Accusative	τὸν ἀποστάτην tòn apostátēn	τὼ ἀποστάτᾱ tṑ apostátā	τοὺς ἀποστάτᾱς toùs apostátās
Vocative	ἀποστάτᾰ apostáta	ἀποστάτᾱ apostátā	ἀποστάται apostátai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αποστάτης (apostátis)
• → Latin: apostata

Further reading

• “ἀποστάτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀποστάτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀποστάτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4396 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.