different between disciple vs dependent

English

Etymology

From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul m (“disciple; scholar”) and discipula f (“female disciple”), both from Latin discipulus (“a pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??sa?pl?/
• Hyphenation: dis?ci?ple

Noun

disciple (plural disciples)

1. A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
2. An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.

   • And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
3. (Ireland) A wretched, miserable-looking man.

Synonyms

• student

Related terms

• discipleship
• disciplic
• discipline

Translations

See also

• apostle

Verb

disciple (third-person singular simple present disciples, present participle discipling, simple past and past participle discipled)

1. (religion, transitive) To convert (a person) into a disciple.
2. (religion, transitive) To train, educate, teach.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […]

   1. (Christianity, certain denominations) To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple.

Further reading

• disciple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• disciple in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French deciple, borrowed from Latin discipulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.sipl/

Noun

disciple m (plural disciples)

1. disciple

Further reading

• “disciple” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Originally dependant, from French dépendant, present participle of dépendre (“to depend”) (in English assimilated to Latin d?pend?ns).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p?nd?nt/
• Hyphenation: de?pend?ent

Adjective

dependent (comparative more dependent, superlative most dependent)

1. Relying upon; depending upon.

2. (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
   • 2005, Alejandro Balbás, Rosario Romera, Esther Ruiz, Recent Advances in Applied Probability, Springer, page 49:

     Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic.

   • 2006, M.M. Rao and Randall J. Swift, Probability Theory with Applications (Second Edition), Springer, page 87:

     Is it possible to find events A, B of ? so that A and B are independent? The answer to this simple and interesting problem is no. A probability space (?,?,P) is called a “dependent probability space” if there are no nontrivial independent events in ?, (?,?,P) is called an independent space otherwise.

3. (of Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Irish verb forms) Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.
4. (medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
5. Hanging down.

Antonyms

• independent

Hyponyms

• language-dependent
• redshift-dependent
• system-dependent
• order-dependent

Translations

Noun

dependent (plural dependents)

1. (US) One who relies on another for support

   With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.

2. (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
3. (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.

Synonyms

• dependant (UK)

Related terms

• dependee
• depender

Translations

Antonyms

• independent

Derived terms

• co-dependent
• depending

Related terms

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?pend?ns.

Adjective

dependent (masculine and feminine plural dependents)

1. dependent

   Antonym: independent

Derived terms

• dependència
• dependentment

Related terms

• dependre
• independent

Further reading

• “dependent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dependent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “dependent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dependent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Ladin

Noun

dependent m (plural dependenc)

1. employee

Latin

Verb

d?pendent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of d?pende?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dépendant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.pen?dent/

Adjective

dependent m or n (feminine singular dependent?, masculine plural dependen?i, feminine and neuter plural dependente)

1. dependent

Declension

Antonyms

• independent

Related terms

• dependen??