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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pos.tá.tɛːs/ → /a.posˈta.tis/ → /a.posˈta.tis/
Noun
ᾰ̓ποστᾰ́της • (ăpostắtēs) m (genitive ᾰ̓ποστᾰ́του); first declension
- deserter, rebel
- (Koine, Christianity) apostate
Declension
Descendants
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.