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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

  • καὶ διέλιπεν ἑπτὰ ἡμέρασ τῷ μαρτυρίῳ, ὡσ εἶπε Σαμουὴλ, καὶ οὐ παρεγένετο Σαμουὴλ εἰσ Γάλγαλα, καὶ διεσπάρη ὁ λαὸσ αὐτοῦ ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 13:7)
  • καὶ εἶπε Σαμουήλ. τί πεποίηκασ̣ καὶ εἶπε Σαούλ. ὅτι εἶδον ὡσ διεσπάρη ὁ λαὸσ ἀπ̓ ἐμοῦ καὶ σὺ οὐ παρεγένου ὡσ διετάξω ἐν τῷ μαρτυρίῳ τῶν ἡμερῶν, καὶ οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι συνήχθησαν εἰσ Μαχμάσ, (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 13:10)
  • ᾧ δὴ πρέπει ἡμᾶσ μαρτυρίῳ χρῆσθαι, ὅτι ποιητὴσ ὁ Ἔρωσ ἀγαθὸσ ἐν κεφαλαίῳ πᾶσαν ποίησιν τὴν κατὰ μουσικήν· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 204:2)
  • τοὐναντίον γὰρ κἂν μαρτυρίῳ χρήσαιτό τισ τούτῳ πρὸσ τὸ μὴ ἀγνοεῖσθαι μηδὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ τῶν εἰρημένων ἀρτίωσ περὶ τὴν Αἴγυπτον. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 46:2)
  • μαρτυρίῳ δ’ ἄν τισ χρήσαιτο πρὸσ τὴν ἀλήθειαν τῶν νῦν ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ λεγομένων καὶ πρὸσ τὸ παράδοξον αὐτῶν τῆσ τόλμησ· (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 20 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. shrine of a martyr

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