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English
Proper noun
Mathathias
- Alternative spelling of Mattathias
Latin
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mathathiās m sg (genitive Mathathiae); first declension
- Alternative spelling of Mattathiās
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin Mathathiās, an alternative form of Mattathiās, from Ancient Greek Μᾰττᾰθῐ́ᾱς (Măttăthĭ́ās), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mathathias m
- (biblical) Mattathias
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 76r:EN ieruſalem era mathathias. […] ⁊ era om̃e q̃ amaua el criador […] e lo temie e ouo .v. fijos muy buenos cauallós e el uno uo nõbre iudas macabeus. e el otro ionatan. ⁊ leaza. e ſimeon. e ioan- lived in Jerusalem Mattathias, and he was a man that loved the Creator and feared Him. And he had five sons, very upright men, and one had the name Judas Maccabeus, and the other Jonathan, and Eleazar and Simon and John.
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