apostol

Borrowed from Spanish apóstol.

• Hyphenation: a‧pos‧tol
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈpostol/ [ʔɐˈpos̪.t̪ol̪]

apóstol (Badlit spelling ᜀᜉᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜎ᜔)

1. an apostle

Borrowed from Late Latin apostolus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “one who is sent”; “messenger”, “envoy”, “ambassador”; “Apostle”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒpoʃtol]
• Hyphenation: apos‧tol
• Rhymes: -ol

apostol (plural apostolok)

1. apostle

• apostoli

• apostol in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• apostol in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin apostolus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “one sent forth, apostle”).

apostol m (apostolion)

1. apostle

• apostolol (“apostolic”)

• Welsh: apostol

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “apostol”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

• apƚ (scribal abbreviation)
• postol (apheresis)

Borrowed from Late Latin apostolus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “messenger, one sent forth”), from ἀποστέλλω (apostéllō, “I send off”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “I set”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.pos.tol/

apostol m

1. apostle
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Æfter þyssere sprǣċe cōmon ðā drȳmen, and hæfdon him mid tweġen ormǣte dracan, ðǣra orðung ācwealde þæt earme mennisċ: ac sē apostol Matheus þā dracan ġeswefode, and siððan of ðām lande adrǣfde, swā þæt hī næfre siððan þǣr ġesewene nǣron.

     After this speech came the sorcerers, who had two enormous dragons which them, whose breath killed that poor man: but the apostle Matthew lulled the dragons to sleep, and then drove them from the land, so that they have never been seen there since.

Strong a-stem:

• apostolhād
• apostolīċ
• ealdorapostol
• efenapostol

• Middle English: apostol, apostel
• → Danish: apostel
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: apostel
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: apostel
• → Old Norse: postoli, postuli
  • Icelandic: postuli
• → Old Swedish: apostol, apostel
  • Swahili: apostel

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “apostol”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• apostel

apostol m

1. apostle

Borrowed from Late Latin apostolus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “messenger, one sent forth”), from ἀποστέλλω (apostéllō, “I send off”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “I set”).

apostol m (oblique plural apostols, nominative singular apostols, nominative plural apostol)

1. apostle

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic апостолъ (apostolŭ), from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “messenger, one sent forth”).

apostol m (plural apostoli)

1. apostle

• “apostol”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

From Old Church Slavonic апостолъ (apostolŭ), from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “messenger, one sent forth”).

• IPA^(key): /ǎpostol/
• Hyphenation: a‧po‧stol

àpostol m anim (Cyrillic spelling а̀постол)

1. apostle

• apostoles

Borrowed from Spanish apóstol, from Late Latin apostolus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “messenger, one sent forth”).

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ʔaposˈtol/ [ʔɐ.posˈt̪ol]
    • Rhymes: -ol
    • Homophone: Apostol
  • IPA^(key): /ʔaˈpostol/ [ʔɐˈpos.t̪ol]
    • Rhymes: -ostol
• Syllabification: a‧pos‧tol

apostól or apostol (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜉᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜎ᜔)

1. apostle

   Synonym: alagad

• “apostol”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “apostol”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

• abostol, abostl, bostol, ebostol, postol

Inherited from Middle Welsh apostol, from Ecclesiastical Latin apostolus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “one sent forth, apostle”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɔsdɔl/, [aˈpʰɔstɔl]

apostol m (plural apostolion or apostolon or apostlon or apostoliaid)

1. (Christianity, also figuratively) apostle

• apostolaidd, apostolig (“apostolic”)
• apostoliaeth (“apostleship”)
• Gweithredoedd yr Apostolion, Actau'r Apostolion (“the Acts of the Apostles”)