apostle
/əˈpɒsəl/uh-PO-suhl
/əˈpɑsəl/uh-PAH-suhl
Meaningone sent away
Common meaning: one sent out
- apoGreek: away, off
- stlto send; to set in orderLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 698 · scan
‘away, off’ + ‘to send’ → apostle
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√STAR or STAL‘be firm, also set, place’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 426, p. 745 · scan
- Greekστέλλω‘to send’
- Latinapostolus
- Englishapostle‘one sent out’ · today
apo- also in: apocopeapoplexyapocalypseapostropheapothecary
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: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Greek στέλλω ‘to send; to set in order’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry στέλλω, p. 698 · dictionary scan
Roots
- στέλλω Greek “to send; to set in order”
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