discipulus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From dis- + Proto-Italic *kapelos (“one who takes”) corresponding to *dwiskapelos, from *kapiō (“take”) (whence capiō).[1] Sense influenced by the unrelated verb discō (“learn”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /disˈki.pu.lus/, [d̪ɪs̠ˈkɪpʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diʃˈʃi.pu.lus/, [d̪iʃˈʃiːpulus]
Noun edit
discipulus m (genitive discipulī); second declension
- student, pupil, disciple, schoolboy
- (military) cadet (student in a military school or state program)
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | discipulus | discipulī |
| Genitive | discipulī | discipulōrum |
| Dative | discipulō | discipulīs |
| Accusative | discipulum | discipulōs |
| Ablative | discipulō | discipulīs |
| Vocative | discipule | discipulī |
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Descendants edit
- English: disciple
- Catalan: deixeble
- French: disciple
- Old Irish: deiscipul
- Irish: deisceabal
- Scottish Gaelic: deisciobal
- Italian: discepolo
- Norman: discipl'ye (Jersey)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: sêpolo, decipolo, discipulo
- Portuguese: discípulo
- Romanian: discipol
- Spanish: discípulo
- Welsh: disgybl
References edit
- “discipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “discipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- discipulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- discipulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “discipulus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 172