discipulus

Latin

Etymology

From dis- (reversal) +‎ plus early *kapelos (“one who takes”) - whence capulus (“tomb”).[1] Sense influenced by the unrelated verb discō (“learn”).

Compare typologically English apprentice, which descends from Latin apprehendō (see apprentice for more).

Pronunciation

Noun

discipulus m (genitive discipulī); second declension

  1. student, pupil, disciple, schoolboy
  2. (military) cadet (student in a military school or state program)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative discipulus discipulī
genitive discipulī discipulōrum
dative discipulō discipulīs
accusative discipulum discipulōs
ablative discipulō discipulīs
vocative discipule discipulī

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References

  1. ^ 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

Further reading

  • “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, 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.
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