different between schoolboy vs disciple

English

Etymology

school +? boy

Noun

schoolboy (plural schoolboys)

1. A boy attending school.

Synonyms

• pupil, student (especially US)

Translations

Adjective

schoolboy (not comparable)

1. characteristic of a schoolboy, especially being cheeky, clumsy and socially unaware.

Derived terms

• schoolboy error

See also

• schoolchild
• schoolgirl

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 Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.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