Ματθαῖος
See also: Ματθαίος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Μαθθαῖος (Maththaîos)
Etymology
According to Strong, from Aramaic מַתַּי (mattay). Compare also Ματταθίας (Mattathías, “Mattathias”).
Pronunciation
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /matˈθɛ.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /matˈθe.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /matˈθe.os/
Proper noun
Ματθαῖος • (Matthaîos) m (genitive Ματθαίου); second declension
- 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
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: |
|
Descendants
- 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)
- Italian: Matteo
- Japanese: マタイ (Matai)
- Latin: Matthaeus, Mattheus
- Macedonian: Матеј (Matej)
- 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
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Aramaic
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek given names
- Ancient Greek male given names
- Ancient Greek male given names from Aramaic