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μαρτύριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαρτύριον μαρτυρίου

Structure: μαρτυρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. testimony, evidence, proof
  2. martyrdom
  3. shrine of a martyr

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐκολλήθην τοῖσ μαρτυρίοισ σου, Κύριε. μή με καταισχύνῃσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 118:31)
  • καὶ ἐλάλουν ἐν τοῖσ μαρτυρίοισ σου ἐναντίον βασιλέων καὶ οὐκ ᾐσχυνόμην. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 118:46)
  • ἀπὸ προσώπου, ὧν ἐθυμιᾶτε καὶ ὧν ἡμάρτετε τῷ Κυρίῳ καὶ οὐκ ἠκούσατε τῆσ φωνῆσ Κυρίου καὶ ἐν τοῖσ προστάγμασιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ μαρτυρίοισ αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐπορεύθητε, καὶ ἐπελάβετο ὑμῶν τὰ κακὰ ταῦτα. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 51:23)
  • ὅσα δὲ οὐχ οἱᾶ́ τε ἦν, ἐλάττω τε ὄντα τούτων καὶ ἀμυδρότερα καὶ διὰ πλῆθοσ δυσπερίληπτα μιᾷ γραφῇ, ταῦτ’ ἐν ταῖσ καθ’ ἡμέραν γυμνασίαισ προσυποθήσομαι καὶ πολλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν ποιητῶν τε καὶ συγγραφέων καὶ ῥητόρων μαρτυρίοισ χρήσομαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2056)
  • πειρατέον δὲ περὶ πάντων τούτων ζητεῖν τὴν πίστιν διὰ τῶν λόγων, μαρτυρίοισ καὶ παραδείγμασι χρώμενον τοῖσ φαινομένοισ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 67:1)

Synonyms

  1. shrine of a martyr

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