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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀποστέλλω (apostéllō, “I send off”), from ἀπό- (apó-, “from”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “I sent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pós.to.los/ → /aˈpos.to.los/ → /aˈpos.to.los/
Noun
ᾰ̓πόστολος • (apóstolos) m (genitive ᾰ̓ποστόλου); second declension
- one who is sent
- messenger, envoy, ambassador
- Synonym: κῆρυξ (kêrux)
- (biblical) apostle
Inflection
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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 (2006–2024)
- 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.