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

• 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