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subapostolic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sub-a-pos-tolic
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to the period after the apostolic age (the time of Christ's apostles) and the early Catholic age (when the followers of the apostles were gone) in early Christian church history, at the tail end of the first century and into the early years of the second century AD.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Latin apostolicuslbor. English apostolic English subapostolic From sub- + apostolic.

Questions

What does subapostolic mean?
Pertaining to the period after the apostolic age (the time of Christ's apostles) and the early Catholic age (when the followers of the apostles were gone) in early Christian church history, at the tail end of the first century and into the early years of the second century AD.
Where does subapostolic come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Latin apostolicuslbor. English apostolic English subapostolic From sub- + apostolic.

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