ἀπόστολος
See also: απόστολος and Απόστολος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀποστέλλω (apostéllō, “I send off”), from ἀπό- (apó-, “from”) and στέλλω (stéllō, “I set”).
Pronunciation
- (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
ᾰ̓πόστολος • (apóstolos) m (genitive ᾰ̓ποστόλου); second declension
- one who is sent
- messenger, envoy, ambassador
- Synonym: κῆρυξ (kêrux)
- (biblical) apostle
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓πόστολος; τοῦ ᾰ̓ποστόλου (Attic)
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
- ἰσαπόστολος (isapóstolos)
Descendants
- → Coptic: ⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ (apostolos)
- → Gothic: 𐌰𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌿𐍃 (apaustaulus)
- → Hawaiian: ʻapokekolo
- Greek: απόστολος (apóstolos)
- → Latin: apostolus (see there for further descendants)
- → Lingala: apɔ́stɔlɔ
- → Old Church Slavonic: апостолъ (apostolŭ)
- → Russian: апо́стол (apóstol)
- → Aghwan: 𐕆𐔴𐔱𐔼𐔺𐔰𐔺𐕒 (hebiyayo) (calque)
- → Old Armenian: առաքեալ (aṙakʿeal) (calque)
Further reading
- “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 (2006–2023)
- 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- expedition idem, page 293.
- fleet idem, page 327.