μαρτυρία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μᾰ́ρτῠς (mắrtŭs, “witness”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mar.ty.rí.aː/ → /mar.tyˈri.a/ → /mar.tiˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mar.ty.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mar.tyˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mar.tyˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mar.tyˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mar.tiˈri.a/

Noun

μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱ • (mărtŭrĭ́ā) f (genitive μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. testimony

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱ hē mărtŭrĭ́ā	τὼ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱ tṑ mărtŭrĭ́ā	αἱ μᾰρτῠρῐ́αι hai mărtŭrĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱς tês mărtŭrĭ́ās	τοῖν μᾰρτῠρῐ́αιν toîn mărtŭrĭ́ain	τῶν μᾰρτῠρῐῶν tôn mărtŭrĭôn
Dative	τῇ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾳ têi mărtŭrĭ́āi	τοῖν μᾰρτῠρῐ́αιν toîn mărtŭrĭ́ain	ταῖς μᾰρτῠρῐ́αις taîs mărtŭrĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱν tḕn mărtŭrĭ́ān	τὼ μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱ tṑ mărtŭrĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s mărtŭrĭ́ās
Vocative	μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱ mărtŭrĭ́ā	μᾰρτῠρῐ́ᾱ mărtŭrĭ́ā	μᾰρτῠρῐ́αι mărtŭrĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “μαρτυρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μαρτυρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μαρτυρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• G3141 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • attestation idem, page 51.
  • authority idem, page 53.
  • deposition idem, page 212.
  • evidence idem, page 285.
  • proof idem, page 653.
  • testimony idem, page 863.
  • witness idem, page 985.

Greek

Noun

μαρτυρία • (martyría) f (plural μαρτυρίες)

1. (law) testimony
2. account

Declension

Declension of μαρτυρία

	singular	plural
nominative	μαρτυρία (martyría)	μαρτυρίες (martyríes)
genitive	μαρτυρίας (martyrías)	μαρτυριών (martyrión)
accusative	μαρτυρία (martyría)	μαρτυρίες (martyríes)
vocative	μαρτυρία (martyría)	μαρτυρίες (martyríes)

Related terms

• see: μάρτυρας m (mártyras, “martyr”)