apostasy
Meaningdefection
Common meaning: abandonment of a religious belief or allegiance
- apostasydefectionSkeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), p. 28 · scan
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√STA‘stand, whence various extended forms’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 418, p. 745 · scan
- Greekapostasia‘defection’source
- Frenchmeaning shiftsdefection → an apostasieapostasie‘an apostasie’source
- Englishmeaning shiftsan apostasie → abandonment of a religious belief or allegianceapostasy‘abandonment of a religious belief or allegiance’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek apostasia ‘defection’.
Roots
- apostasia Greek “defection”
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