different between apostate vs loafer

English

Etymology

From Late Latin apostata, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apostát?s, “rebel”), from ???????? (aphíst?mi, “to withdraw, revolt”), from ??? (apó, “from”) + ?????? (híst?mi, “to stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?s.te?t/, /??p?s.t?t/

Adjective

apostate (not comparable)

1. Guilty of apostasy.
   • a wretched and apostate state

Translations

Noun

apostate (plural apostates)

1. A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
2. (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

Synonyms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• heresy
• heretic
• heretical

Further reading

• Apostasy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

apostate f

1. plural of apostata

Portuguese

Verb

apostate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of apostatar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of apostatar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of apostatar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of apostatar

Spanish

Verb

apostate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of apostatar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of apostatar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of apostatar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of apostatar.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??f?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?f?/
• Rhymes: -??f?(r)

Etymology 1

Perhaps short for landloafer, possibly a partial translation of German Landläufer (compare dialectal German loofen (“to run”), and English landlouper); or connected to Middle English love, loove, loffinge, looffinge (“a remnant, the rest, that which remains or lingers”), from Old English l?f (“remainder, residue, what is left”) (more at lave), which is akin to Scots lave (“the rest, remainder”), Old English l?fan (“to leave behind”) (more at leave).

Noun

loafer (plural loafers)

1. An idle person.
2. A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.

Synonyms

• (idle person): bum, bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo
• (footwear): penny loafer
• See also Thesaurus:idler

Translations

Etymology 2

From American Spanish lobo (“wolf”) (/?lo?o/), reinterpreted as or conflated with loafer (“idler”); compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations. Doublet of lupus and wolf.

Alternative forms

• lobo, lobo wolf
• lofer (wolf), lover (wolf), loper (wolf)

Noun

loafer (plural loafers)

1. (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

Usage notes

• Often used in compound with "wolf": "loafer wolf".

Further reading

• Robert N. Smead, Vocabulario Vaquero/Cowboy Talk: A Dictionary of Spanish Terms from the American West

Anagrams

• Florea, florae, floræ