English → Latin
“disciple” in Latin
discipulusstudent, pupil, disciple, schoolboy; cadet (student in a military school or state program)audiōto hear, listen to; to attend, pay attention to; to accept, agree with, obeyassĕclaa followerTheophrastusA Greek philosopher of Eressus, disciple of Plato and AristotleZēnōa male given name from Ancient Greek, feminine equivalent Zēna, equivalent to Greek Ζήνων (Zínon) or English Zeno; ZenoPlatōPlato, a Greek philosopherdisciplīnateaching, instruction, education; training; learning, knowledge, discipline, science, study
The English word disciple itself goes back to Latin discipulus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
disciple s.
discipulus: auditor (a hearer; e.g., Theophrasti). (The words are found in this connection and order.) auditor et discipulus (Cic.): assecla (follower, hanger-on, but only with contemptuous meaning: ☞ sectator, assectator not till Silver Age). Disciples of Aristotle, Zeno, etc., ab Aristotele, a Zenone profecti: our friends the disciples of Plato and Aristotle, nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele: to be a disciple of anybody, disciplina or institutione alicujus uti; uti aliquo magistro; aliquem magistrum habere (to have anybody for one’s master); aliquem audire (to attend anybody’s lectures); esse or profectum esse ab aliquo (to belong to his school of philosophy): aliquem sequi or persequi (to receive his doctrines): to become anybody’s disciple, tradere se alicui in disciplinam. The Romans used to express the disciples of anybody by an attributive; the disciples of Pythagoras, Socrates, etc., Pythagoraei, Socratici, etc.
disciple v.
*disciplina or ad disciplinam informare aliquem: *ad legem or disciplinam instituere aliquem: religione imbuere aliquem: *institutionibus suis erudire aliquem.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for disciple?
- The usual Latin words for “disciple” are discipulus, audiō, assĕcla; also Theophrastus, Zēnō, Platō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.