different between supporter vs disciple

English

Etymology

From Middle English supporter, supportour, equivalent to support +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??p??.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??p??.t?/, /-??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
• Hyphenation: sup?port?er

Noun

supporter (plural supporters)

1. A person who gives support to someone or something.
   1. A person who supports, promotes, advocates or champions a cause, movement, or political party; an adherent.
   2. A person who provides moral or physical support to another; an attendant participating in a ceremony or procession.
   3. (sports) Someone who is a fan of a certain sports team or sportsperson.
2. Something that supports another thing.
   1. Something that supports a structure such as a building or a sculpture.
   2. (heraldry) An animal or figure that supports a shield in a coat of arms.
   3. A garter worn around the leg to support a sock or stocking.
      • 1957, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1961, ISBN 978-0-316-76954-9; LB Books edition, New York, N.Y.: LB Books, 1991, ISBN 978-0-606-28833-0, page 117:

        From the radiator, where he was attaching supporters to his socks, Zooey glanced up at her.

   4. Clipping of athletic supporter.

Synonyms

• adherent
• proponent

Antonyms

• detractor
• opponent

Translations

Anagrams

• superport

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English supporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??p?rt?r/, /sy?p?rt?r/
• Hyphenation: sup?por?ter

Noun

supporter m (plural supporters, diminutive supportertje n)

1. (sports) A supporter, a sports fan supporting a certain team or person.

French

Etymology 1

From Latin support?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.p??.te/

Verb

supporter

1. to support
2. to bear
   • François Pérusse

     Je ne supporte pas le mot injustice.

     I can't bear the word injustice.

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English supporter.

Alternative forms

• supporteur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.p??.t??/

Noun

supporter m (plural supporters)

1. (sports) supporter, fan

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English supporter.

Noun

supporter m or f (invariable)

1. supporter, fan
2. support act

Latin

Verb

supporter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of support?

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).