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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Often assigned to Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to fall into thinking, remember, care for”),[1][2] which is acknowledged by Beekes, but he finds it unconvincing and instead derives it from Pre-Greek based on the ending of the word.[3]
Compare Latin mas and Latin maritus.
Le Feuvre (2021) maintains the usual derivation from *(s)mer- (“to fall into thinking, remember, care for”) and explains the ending of the word from a zero-grade of *twerH- (“to seize, bind”), whence also σειρά (seirá, “rope, cord”).[4]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /már.tys/ → /ˈmar.tys/ → /ˈmar.tis/
Noun
μᾰ́ρτῠς • (mártus) m or f (genitive μᾰ́ρτῠρος); third declension
- witness
- martyr
Declension
ὁ, ἡ μᾰ́ρτῠς ho, hē mártus
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τὼ μᾰ́ρτῠρε tṑ márture
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οἱ, αἱ μᾰ́ρτῠρες hoi, hai mártures
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τοῦ, τῆς μᾰ́ρτῠρος toû, tês márturos
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τοῖν μᾰρτῠ́ροιν toîn martúroin
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τῶν μᾰρτῠ́ρων tôn martúrōn
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τῷ, τῇ μᾰ́ρτῠρῐ tôi, têi márturi
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τοῖν μᾰρτῠ́ροιν toîn martúroin
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τοῖς, ταῖς μάρτῠσῐ / μάρτῠσῐν toîs, taîs mártusi / mártusin
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τὸν, τὴν μᾰ́ρτῠρᾰ tòn, tḕn mártura
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τὼ μᾰ́ρτῠρε tṑ márture
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς μᾰ́ρτῠρᾰς toùs, tā̀s márturas
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μᾰ́ρτῠς mártus
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μᾰ́ρτῠρε márture
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μᾰ́ρτῠρες mártures
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and see words with μαρτυρ-, μάρτυς @perseus.tufts.edu
Descendants
References
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “μάρτυς”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μάρτυς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 908-9
- ^ Le Feuvre, Claire (2021) “Greek μάρτυς ‘witness’, σειρά ‘rope’ and PIE *tṷer(H)- ‘to bind’”, in Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics, volume 134, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG), →ISSN, →JSTOR, retrieved May 12, 2023, pages 225–238
Further reading
- “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “μάρτυς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011