different between disciple vs journeyman

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 Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.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

From Middle English jorneman; from journe (from Old French jornee (“a day's work, a journey”)) and mon; equivalent to journey +? -man.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??nim?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???nim?n/

Noun

journeyman (plural journeymen)

1. A tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 26

     […] toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.

2. A competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day.
3. (sports) A player who plays on many different teams during the course of his career.

   The Los Angeles Lakers added journeyman forward Bob McAdoo to their roster in hopes that he could help them win a title.

Translations

See also

• apprentice
• masterman
• master