Ματθαῖος

See also: Ματθαίος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Μαθθαῖος (Maththaîos)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /matˈθɛ.os/ → /matˈθe.os/

• (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

1. 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^[1], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN