apostolicus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποστολικός (apostolikós, “apostolic”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.posˈto.li.kus/, [äpɔs̠ˈt̪ɔlʲɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.posˈto.li.kus/, [äposˈt̪ɔːlikus]

Adjective

apostolicus (feminine apostolica, neuter apostolicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to an apostle; apostolic.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	apostolicus	apostolica	apostolicum		apostolicī	apostolicae	apostolica
genitive	apostolicī	apostolicae	apostolicī		apostolicōrum	apostolicārum	apostolicōrum
dative	apostolicō	apostolicae	apostolicō		apostolicīs
accusative	apostolicum	apostolicam	apostolicum		apostolicōs	apostolicās	apostolica
ablative	apostolicō	apostolicā	apostolicō		apostolicīs
vocative	apostolice	apostolica	apostolicum		apostolicī	apostolicae	apostolica

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: apostòlic
• Dutch: aposotoliek
  • Indonesian: apostolik
• Dutch: apostolisch
• English: apostolic
• French: apostolique
• German: apostolisch
• Galician: apostólico
• Italian: apostolico
• Norman: apostolique (Jersey)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: apostolisk
• Portuguese: apostólico
• Romanian: apostolic
• Spanish: apostólico
• Turkish: apostolik

Noun

apostolicus m (genitive apostolicī); second declension

1. apostle
2. (Medieval Latin) bishop, (specifically) the pope

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	apostolicus	apostolicī
genitive	apostolicī	apostolicōrum
dative	apostolicō	apostolicīs
accusative	apostolicum	apostolicōs
ablative	apostolicō	apostolicīs
vocative	apostolice	apostolicī

References

• “apostolicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "apostolicus", 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)
• apostolicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• apostolicus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “apostolicus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill