disciple
pronunciation
How to pronounce disciple in British English:
UK [dɪˈsaɪpl]
How to pronounce disciple in American English:
US [dɪˈsaɪpl]
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- Noun:
- someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
Word Origin
- disciple (n.)
- Old English discipul (fem. discipula), Biblical borrowing from Latin discipulus "pupil, student, follower," said to be from discere "to learn" [OED, Watkins], from a reduplicated form of PIE root *dek- "to take, accept" (see decent). But according to Barnhart and Klein, from a lost compound *discipere "to grasp intellectually, analyze thoroughly," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + capere "to take, take hold of" (see capable). Compare Latin capulus "handle" from capere. Sometimes glossed in Old English by þegn (see thane).
Example
- 1. Mokurai had to go outside to see his disciple .
- 2. With it has come that of his most interesting disciple , hyman minsky .
- 3. " May I become your disciple " ?
- 4. A disciple confessed his bad habit of repeating gossip .
- 5. Galileo simply believed that scripture was not intended to teach astronomy , but rather , as he wrote in a 1613 letter to his disciple benedetto castelli , to " persuade men of the truths necessary for salvation . "