μαρτύριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”) +‎ -ιον (-ion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mar.tý.ri.on/ → /marˈty.ri.on/ → /marˈti.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mar.tý.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /marˈty.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /marˈty.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /marˈty.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /marˈti.ri.on/

Noun

μᾰρτῠ́ρῐον • (martúrion) n (genitive μᾰρτῠρῐ́ου); second declension

1. testimony, evidence, proof
2. martyrdom
3. shrine of a martyr

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μᾰρτῠ́ρῐον; τοῦ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μᾰρτῠ́ρῐον tò martúrion	τὼ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ω tṑ marturíō	τᾰ̀ μᾰρτῠ́ρῐᾰ tà martúria
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ου toû marturíou	τοῖν μᾰρτῠρῐ́οιν toîn marturíoin	τῶν μᾰρτῠρῐ́ων tôn marturíōn
Dative	τῷ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ῳ tôi marturíōi	τοῖν μᾰρτῠρῐ́οιν toîn marturíoin	τοῖς μᾰρτῠρῐ́οις toîs marturíois
Accusative	τὸ μᾰρτῠ́ρῐον tò martúrion	τὼ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ω tṑ marturíō	τᾰ̀ μᾰρτῠ́ρῐᾰ tà martúria
Vocative	μᾰρτῠ́ρῐον martúrion	μᾰρτῠρῐ́ω marturíō	μᾰρτῠ́ρῐᾰ martúria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: մատուռն (matuṙn)
    • Armenian: մատուռ (matuṙ)
• Latin: martyrium
  • Arabic: مَرْطُول (marṭūl)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • authority idem, page 53.
  • evidence idem, page 285.
  • proof idem, page 653.
  • testimony idem, page 863.