Noun: apostol
Gender: m
Nominative
| Singular | apostol |
| Plural | apostolas |
Genitive
| Singular | apostoles |
| Plural | apostola |
Dative
| Singular | apostole |
| Plural | apostolum |
Accusative
| Singular | apostol |
| Plural | apostolas |
Sample Sentences
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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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.)
Nouns inflected like apostol
feohtling,
seoloþ,
seonoþ,
sacerd,
sleaht,
bealluc,
uprodor,
fugoloþ,
hoppsteort,
pearroc,
swiccræft,
penning,
mæssesang,
weorccræft,
tordwifel,
sandpytt,
discipul,
wyrmhord,
underling,
pundfald, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἀπόστολος'.
Verbs referencing "apostol"
English Nouns
apostle, Icelandic Nouns
postuli.
Translations