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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”) + -ιον (-ion).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mar.tý.ri.on/ → /marˈty.ri.on/ → /marˈti.ri.on/
Noun
μᾰρτῠ́ρῐον • (martúrion) n (genitive μᾰρτῠρῐ́ου); second declension
- testimony, evidence, proof
- martyrdom
- shrine of a martyr
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “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, 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.