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From Middle English martir, from Old English martyr, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, witness).

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martyr (plural martyrs)

  1. One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.
    Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
  2. (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
  3. (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
    Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris a martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it.
    • 1937, AJ Cronin, The Citadel:
      He'd been a martyr to asthma all his life.

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martyr (third-person singular simple present martyrs, present participle martyring, simple past and past participle martyred)

  1. (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
  2. (transitive) To persecute.
    Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.
  3. (transitive) To torment; to torture.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 martyr”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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From Old Danish martir. Borrowed via Ecclesiastical Latin martyr from Ancient Greek μάρτυς (mártus, witness).

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmɑːˌtˢyɐ̯ˀ]

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martyr c (singular definite martyren, plural indefinite martyrer)

  1. martyr

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Inherited from Old French martire, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, witness).

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martyr m (plural martyrs, feminine martyre)

  1. martyr

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From Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, witness).

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martyr m or f (genitive martyris); third declension

  1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) martyr, especially a Christian martyr

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative martyr martyrēs
Genitive martyris martyrum
Dative martyrī martyribus
Accusative martyrem martyrēs
Ablative martyre martyribus
Vocative martyr martyrēs

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From Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, witness).

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martyr m (plural martyrs)

  1. (religion) martyr

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, witness).

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martyr m (definite singular martyren, indefinite plural martyrer, definite plural martyrene)

  1. martyr

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, witness).

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martyr m (definite singular martyren, indefinite plural martyrar, definite plural martyrane)

  1. martyr

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, witness).

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martyr m

  1. martyr

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, witness).

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martyr c

  1. martyr

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Declension of martyr 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative martyr martyren martyrer martyrerna
Genitive martyrs martyrens martyrers martyrernas

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