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noun, masculine

apôtre

/a.potʁ/

noun, masculine/a.potʁ/plural: apôtres

apostle

Related: bon apôtre, faire le bon apôtre, isapôtre

Inherited from Old French apostre (c. 1180), apostle (c. 1100), borrowed from Late Latin apostolus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “one sent forth, apostle”).