martyr
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old English, itself from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (martyr), later form of μάρτυς (martus, “witness”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- enPR: märʹ-tər, IPA: /ˈmɑrtər/, X-SAMPA: /"mArt@r/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)tə(r)
Noun [edit]
martyr (plural martyrs)
- 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.
- (by extension) One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- (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.
- One who is killed or suffers greatly because of an identity or position, e.g., a young prince killed when his father, the king, is deposed for the purpose of preventing the restoration of the monarchy later.
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Translations [edit]
one willing to be killed for religion (shahid)
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one who sacrifices their life for an important cause
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one who suffers greatly, even involuntarily
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Verb [edit]
martyr (third-person singular simple present martyrs, present participle martyring, simple past and past participle martyred)
- (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
- (transitive) To persecute.
- Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.
- (transitive) To torment; to torture.
- The lovely Amoret, whose gentle heart
- Thou martyrest with sorrow and with smart. — Spenser
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Translations [edit]
to make someone a martyr
persecute — see persecute
torture — see torture
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (martyr), later form of μάρτυς (martus, “witness”).
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Noun [edit]
martyr m (plural martyrs; feminine martyre, plural martyres)
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Jèrriais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (martyr), later form of μάρτυς (martus, “witness”).
Noun [edit]
martyr m (plural martyrs)
Latin [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (martyr), later form of μάρτυς (martus, “witness”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
martyr (genitive martyris); m f, third declension
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) martyr, especially a Christian martyr
Inflection [edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | martyr | martyrēs |
| genitive | martyris | martyrum |
| dative | martyrī | martyribus |
| accusative | martyrem | martyrēs |
| ablative | martyre | martyribus |
| vocative | martyr | martyrēs |
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Norwegian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (martyr), later form of μάρτυς (martys, “witness”).
Noun [edit]
martyr
- A martyr.
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Inflection of martyr
Swedish [edit]
Noun [edit]
martyr c
- a martyr
Declension [edit]
Declension of martyr
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | martyr | martyren | martyrer | martyrerna |
| genitive | martyrs | martyrens | martyrers | martyrernas |
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- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin
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- English nouns
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- English verbs
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- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Jèrriais terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin
- Jèrriais terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Jèrriais nouns
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- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin nouns
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- Norwegian terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin
- Norwegian terms derived from Ancient Greek
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