martyr
English
Etymology
From Middle English martir, from Old English martir, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Hyphenation: mar‧tyr
Noun
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.
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Verb
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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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “martyr”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Noun
martyr c (singular definite martyren, plural indefinite martyrer)
Declension
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | martyr | martyren | martyrer | martyrerne |
genitive | martyrs | martyrens | martyrers | martyrernes |
References
- “martyr” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French martire, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
martyr m (plural martyrs, feminine martyre)
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Further reading
- “martyr”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmar.tyr/, [ˈmärt̪ʏr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmar.tir/, [ˈmärt̪ir]
Noun
martyr m or f (genitive martyris); third declension
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) martyr, especially a Christian martyr
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | martyr | martyrēs |
Genitive | martyris | martyrum |
Dative | martyrī | martyribus |
Accusative | martyrem | martyrēs |
Ablative | martyre | martyribus |
Vocative | martyr | martyrēs |
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Descendants
- → Danish: martyr
- → Dutch: martelaar
- → Estonian: märter
- → Finnish: marttyyri
- → German: Märtyrer
- → Hungarian: mártír
- Lombard: màrtul
- → Norwegian: martyr
- → Old French: martire
- → Italian: martire
- Neapolitan: marture
- Old Italian: martore
- → Old Occitan:
- → Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Romanian: martor
- Sardinian: màrturu
- → Scottish Gaelic: martair
- → Spanish: mártir
- → Tagalog: martir
- → Swedish: martyr
References
- “martyr”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- martyr in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Norman
Etymology
From Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Noun
martyr m (plural martyrs)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Noun
martyr m (definite singular martyren, indefinite plural martyrer, definite plural martyrene)
Related terms
References
- “martyr” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Noun
martyr m (definite singular martyren, indefinite plural martyrar, definite plural martyrane)
Related terms
References
- “martyr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -yːr
Noun
martyr c
Declension
Declension of martyr | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | martyr | martyren | martyrer | martyrerna |
Genitive | martyrs | martyrens | martyrers | martyrernas |
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