apostolicus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποστολικός (apostolikós, “apostolic”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.pɔsˈtɔ.lɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.posˈtɔː.li.kus] === Adjective === apostolicus (feminine apostolica, neuter apostolicum); first/second-declension adjective Of or pertaining to an apostle; apostolic. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === Noun === apostolicus m (genitive apostolicī); second declension apostle (Medieval Latin) bishop, (specifically) the pope ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “apostolicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "apostolicus", 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) “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