Ματθαῖος

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Ancient Greek

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Matthew

Alternative forms

Μαθθαῖος (Maththaîos)

Etymology

According to Strong, from Aramaic מַתַּי (mattay). Compare also Ματταθίας (Mattathías, “Mattathias”).

Pronunciation

(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /matˈθɛ.os/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /matˈθe.os/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /matˈθe.os/

Proper noun

Ματθαῖος • (Matthaîos) m (genitive Ματθαίου); second declension

a male given name from Aramaic, equivalent to English Matthew (disciple of Jesus in Christianity)
- Palatine Anthology 1.83

Usage notes

The variant Μαθθαῖος (Maththaîos) is found on earlier manuscripts.

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ματθαῖος; τοῦ Ματθαίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ματθαῖος ho Matthaîos
Genitive	τοῦ Ματθαίου toû Matthaíou
Dative	τῷ Ματθαίῳ tôi Matthaíōi
Accusative	τὸν Ματθαῖον tòn Matthaîon
Vocative	Ματθαῖε Matthaîe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Albanian: Matosh, Mathe
→ Bulgarian: Матей (Matej)
→ Catalan: Mateu
→ Cantonese: 馬太(瑪竇)／马太(玛窦)
→ Dutch: Matteüs
→ English: Matthew
→ Estonian: Matteus
→ Finnish: Matteus
→ French: Matthieu, Mathieu
→ German: Matthäus
→ Greek: Ματθαίος (Matthaíos)
→ Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌸𐌰𐌹𐌿𐍃 (Matþaius)
→ Italian: Matteo
→ Japanese: マタイ (Matai)
→ Latin: Matthaeus, Mattheus
→ Macedonian: Матеј (Matej)
→ Old Georgian: მათჱ (matē)
- Georgian: მათე (mate)
→ Polish: Mateusz
→ Portuguese: Mateus
→ Romanian: Matei
→ Russian: Матфей (Matfej)
→ Serbo-Croatian: Matej
→ Slovene: Matej
→ Spanish: Mateo
→ Swedish: Matteus
→ Ukrainian: Матвій (Matvij)

References

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
G3156 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

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