apostolus

Latin

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “one who is sent”; “messenger”, “envoy”, “ambassador”; “Apostle”).

apostolus m (genitive apostolī); second declension

→ Asturian: apóstol
→ Breton: abostol
→ Catalan: apòstol
→ Cornish: abostol
→ Friulian: apuestul
→ Galician: apóstolo
→ Italian: apostolo
→ Middle Dutch: apostel
- Dutch: apostel (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Czech: apoštol
- Czech: apoštol
- → Old Polish: apostoł
  - Polish: apostoł
  - Silesian: apostōł, aposztōł
→ Old English: apostol (see there for further descendants)
→ Old French: apostle (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Frisian: apostol, apostel
- West Frisian: apostel
→ Old High German: apostolo
- German: Apostel
  - → Silesian: apostel
- Luxembourgish: Apostel
- Plautdietsch: Apostel
→ Old Irish: apstal
- Irish: aspal
- Manx: ostyl
- Scottish Gaelic: abstol, ostal
→ Portuguese: apóstolo
→ Sicilian: apòstulu
→ Spanish: apóstol
→ Middle Welsh: apostol
- Welsh: apostol

“apostolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"apostolus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“apostolus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
apostolus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016