Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /martýrion/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /martýrion/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /maɾtíɾion/

Noun

μαρτύριον • ‎(martúrion) n ‎(genitive μαρτυρίου); second declension

1. testimony, evidence, proof
2. martyrdom
3. shrine of a martyr

Inflection

Descendants

• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: մատուռն ‎(matuṙn)
    • Armenian: մատուռ ‎(matuṙ)
• Latin: martyrium

References

• μαρτύριον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μαρτύριον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μαρτύριον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μαρτύριον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3142”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • authority idem, page 53.
  • evidence idem, page 285.
  • proof idem, page 653.
  • testimony idem, page 863.