ἀποστολή

See also: αποστολή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀποστέλλω (apostéllō) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.pos.to.lɛ̌ː/ → /a.pos.toˈli/ → /a.pos.toˈli/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.pos.to.lɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.pos.toˈle̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.pos.toˈli/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.pos.toˈli/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.pos.toˈli/

Noun

ἀποστολή • (apostolḗ) f (genitive ἀποστολῆς); first declension

1. commission, mission
2. apostleship

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀποστολή; τῆς ἀποστολῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀποστολή hē apostolḗ	τὼ ἀποστολᾱ́ tṑ apostolā́	αἱ ἀποστολαί hai apostolaí
Genitive	τῆς ἀποστολῆς tês apostolês	τοῖν ἀποστολαῖν toîn apostolaîn	τῶν ἀποστολῶν tôn apostolôn
Dative	τῇ ἀποστολῇ têi apostolêi	τοῖν ἀποστολαῖν toîn apostolaîn	ταῖς ἀποστολαῖς taîs apostolaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἀποστολήν tḕn apostolḗn	τὼ ἀποστολᾱ́ tṑ apostolā́	τᾱ̀ς ἀποστολᾱ́ς tā̀s apostolā́s
Vocative	ἀποστολή apostolḗ	ἀποστολᾱ́ apostolā́	ἀποστολαί apostolaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αποστολή (apostolí)

Further reading

• “ἀποστολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀποστολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀποστολή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀποστολή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G651 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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