Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μάρτῠρ ‎(mártur) Aeolic
• μαίτυρς ‎(maíturs) Cretan

Noun

μάρτῠς • ‎(mártus) m, f ‎(genitive μάρτῠρος); third declension

1. witness
2. martyr

Declension

Descendants

• Latin: martyr
• Old Armenian: մարտիրոս ‎(martiros)
• Greek: μάρτυρας ‎(mártyras)

References

• μάρτυς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάρτυρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάρτυς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μάρτυς» 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
• μάρτυς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3144”, 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.
  • witness idem, page 985.

1. ↑ A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots
2. ↑ The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.
3. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill