ἀπόστολος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ἀποστέλλω (apostéllō, “I send off”), from ἀπό- (apó-, “from”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “I sent”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.pós.to.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈpos.to.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈpos.to.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈpos.to.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈpos.to.los/
Noun
[edit]ᾰ̓πόστολος • (apóstolos) m (genitive ᾰ̓ποστόλου); second declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ᾰ̓πόστολος ho apóstolos |
τὼ ᾰ̓ποστόλω tṑ apostólō |
οἱ ᾰ̓πόστολοι hoi apóstoloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓ποστόλου toû apostólou |
τοῖν ᾰ̓ποστόλοιν toîn apostóloin |
τῶν ᾰ̓ποστόλων tôn apostólōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓ποστόλῳ tôi apostólōi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓ποστόλοιν toîn apostóloin |
τοῖς ᾰ̓ποστόλοις toîs apostólois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ᾰ̓πόστολον tòn apóstolon |
τὼ ᾰ̓ποστόλω tṑ apostólō |
τοὺς ᾰ̓ποστόλους toùs apostólous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓πόστολε apóstole |
ᾰ̓ποστόλω apostólō |
ᾰ̓πόστολοι apóstoloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- ἰσαπόστολος (isapóstolos)
Descendants
[edit]- → Coptic: ⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ (apostolos)
- → Gothic: 𐌰𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌿𐍃 (apaustaulus)
- → Hawaiian: ʻapokekolo
- Greek: απόστολος (apóstolos)
- → Latin: apostolus
- Asturian: apóstol
- Breton: abostol
- Catalan: apòstol
- Cornish: abostol
- English: apostle
- Friulian: apuestul
- Galician: apóstolo
- Italian: apostolo
- → Middle Dutch: apostel
- Dutch: apostel
- → Old English: apostol, postol (apheresis)
- Old French: apostle
- → Old Frisian: apostol
- → Old High German: apostolo
- German: Apostel
- Old Irish: apstal
- → Old Polish: apostoł
- → Polish: apostoł
- Portuguese: apóstolo
- Sicilian: apòstulu
- Spanish: apóstol
- Welsh: abostol, abostl
- → Lingala: apɔ́stɔlɔ
- → Old Church Slavonic: апостолъ (apostolŭ)
- → Aghwan: 𐕆𐔴𐔱𐔼𐔺𐔰𐔺𐕒 (hebiyayo) (calque)
- → Old Armenian: առաքեալ (aṙakʻeal) (calque)
Further reading
[edit]- “ἀπόστολος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀπόστολος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀπόστολος 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
- ἀπόστολος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G652 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.
- expedition idem, page 293.
- fleet idem, page 327.
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