Old English · noun
apostol
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /ˈɑ.pos.tol/
- Syllables
- ˈɑ · pos · tol (3 syllables)
- Modern English
- apostle
Meaning
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apostle
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.
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
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”).
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