Latin

Alternative forms

• Matt. abbreviation

Proper noun

Matthaeus m ‎(genitive Matthaeī); second declension

1. A male given name of biblical origin.
2. Matthew the Evangelist, one of the twelve Apostles. A publican or tax-collector at Capernaum and credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew.
3. (biblical) The Gospel of St. Matthew, the first book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the first of the four gospels, a book attributed to Matthew the Evangelist.

Declension

Second declension.

References

• Matthaeus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Matthaeus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.