Martin

See also martin, and Martín

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin Martinus (“of or like Mars" or "little Mars”), Mars, Martis + -inus (diminutive suffix.

Furthermore, the name Mars is likely to have been brought into Latin from elsewhere, likely the Etruscan Maris which was their name for the same deity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɑː.tɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"mA:.tIn/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmɑɹ.tn̩/, X-SAMPA: {{{1}}}
• Hyphenation: mar‧tin
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪn
• Homophone: marten (in some accents)

Proper noun

Martin

1. A male given name originally given in honor of a fourth century soldier-saint.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 1, Act I:Scene 2:

     Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, / Since I have entered into these wars.

   • 1767 Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Book IV ( Slawkenbergius's Tale ):

     Luther was not born in the year 1483, but in 84; and not on the 22nd day of October, but on the 10th of November, the eve of Martinmas day, from whence he had the name of Martin. - - - Now you see, brother Toby, he would say, looking up, "that christian names are not such indifferent things;" - Had Luther here been called by any other name but Martin, he would have been damned to all eternity - Not that I look upon Martin, he would add, as a good name - far from it - 'tis something better than a neutral, and but a little - yet little as it is, you see it was of some service to him.

   • 1933 Eleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 90 ("Boys' Names")

     What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird,

2. A patronymic surname.
3. An English habitational surname for someone who lived near a mere.

Related terms

• Martina
• Martinmas

Translations

given name

• Armenian: Մարտին (hy) (Martin) 
• Catalan: Martí (ca)
• Chinese: 马丁 (mǎdīng)
• Czech: Martin (cs) m
• Danish: Martin (da), Morten (da)
• Dutch: Martijn, Maarten, Martinus
• Esperanto: Marteno (eo)
• Estonian: Martin (et), Mart (et)
• Finnish: Martti (fi)
• French: Martin (fr)
• German: Martin (de)
• Hungarian: Márton (hu)
• Icelandic: Marteinn (is)
• Irish: Mártan (ga) m, Máirtín (ga) m

• Italian: Martino (it)
• Korean: 마틴 (ko)
• Latin: Martinus (la)
• Latvian: Mārtiņš (lv)
• Lithuanian: Martynas (lt)
• Macedonian: Мартин (mk) (Mártin)
• Norwegian: Martin (no), Morten (no)
• Polish: Marcin (pl) m
• Portuguese: Martinho (pt) m
• Russian: Мартин (ru) (Martin) , Мартын (ru) (Martyn) 
• Scottish Gaelic: Màrtainn (gd) m
• Spanish: Martín (es)
• Swedish: Martin (sv), Mårten (sv)

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Czech

Etymology

From Latin Martinus (“of or like Mars" or "little Mars”), Mars, Martis + -inus (diminutive suffix). Cognate to English Martin.

Proper noun

Martin m

1. A male given name. Feminine form: Martina.

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin Martinus (“of or like Mars" or "little Mars”), Mars, Martis + -inus (diminutive suffix). Cognate to English Martin.

Proper noun

Martin

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• (male given names) Morten
• (female names) Martine
• (surnames) Martinsen, Mortensen

References

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 58 178 males with the given name Martin have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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Estonian

Etymology

From Latin Martinus (“of or like Mars" or "little Mars”), Mars, Martis + -inus (diminutive suffix). Cognate to English Martin.

Proper noun

Martin

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• Mart, Marten, Martti, Märt

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Finnish

Proper noun

Martin

1. Genitive singular form of Martti.

Anagrams

• mitran

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French

Etymology

From Latin Martinus (“of or like Mars" or "little Mars”), Mars, Martis + -inus (diminutive suffix). Cognate to English Martin.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /maʁtɛ̃/

Proper noun

Martin m

1. A male given name. Feminine form: Martine.
2. A patronymic surname.

Anagrams

• mirant
• rimant

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German

Etymology

From Latin Martinus (“of or like Mars" or "little Mars”), Mars, Martis + -inus (diminutive suffix). Cognate to English Martin.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /maʁtɪn/

Proper noun

Martin

1. A male given name.
2. A patronymic surname.

Related terms

• (female name) Martina

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Latin Martinus (“of or like Mars" or "little Mars”), Mars, Martis + -inus (diminutive suffix). First recorded in Norway ca. 1200. Cognate with English Martin.

Proper noun

Martin

1. A male given name.

Usage notes

• The most common given name of men born in Norway in the 1990s.

Related terms

• (male given names) Morten
• (female given names) Martine
• (surnames) Martinsen, Mortensen

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 20 132 males with the given name Martin living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin Martinus (“of or like Mars" or "little Mars”), Mars, Martis + -inus (diminutive suffix).

Proper noun

Martin m (nominative singular Martins)

1. A male given name, cognate to Martin in Modern English

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin Martinus (“of or like Mars" or "little Mars”), Mars, Martis + -inus (diminutive suffix). Cognate to English Martin.

Proper noun

Martin

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• (male given names) Mårten
• (female given names) Martina
• (surnames) Martinsson, Mårtensson

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• [3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 72 420 males with the given name Martin living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.