different between martyr vs assassination

English

Etymology

From Middle English martir, from Old English martyr, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek ?????? (mártur), later form of ?????? (mártus, “witness”).

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?m??t?(?)/, [?m??t?(?)], [?m????(?)]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??t?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??.t?/, [?m??.??]
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
• Hyphenation: mar?tyr

Noun

martyr (plural martyrs)

1. One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.

2. (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.
3. (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.

Hyponyms

• shaheed, shahid (a martyr for Islam)

Antonyms

• confessor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

martyr (third-person singular simple present martyrs, present participle martyring, simple past and past participle martyred)

1. (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.
2. (transitive) To persecute.

3. (transitive) To torment; to torture.

Synonyms

• martyrize

Derived terms

• martyrer

Translations

References

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish martir. Borrowed via Ecclesiastical Latin martyr from Ancient Greek ?????? (mártus, “witness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m???t?y???]

Noun

martyr c (singular definite martyren, plural indefinite martyrer)

1. martyr

Declension

References

• “martyr” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French martire, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek ?????? (mártur), later form of ?????? (mártus, “witness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?.ti?/

Noun

martyr m (plural martyrs, feminine martyre)

1. martyr

Related terms

• martyre

Further reading

• “martyr” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (mártur), later form of ?????? (mártus, “witness”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mar.tyr/, [?märt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mar.tir/, [?m?rt?ir]

Noun

martyr m or f (genitive martyris); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) martyr, especially a Christian martyr

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• martyrium

Descendants

• ? Danish: martyr
• ? Dutch: martelaar
• ? Estonian: märter
• ? Finnish: marttyyri
• ? German: Märtyrer
• ? Hungarian: mártír
• Lombard: màrtul
• ? Norwegian: martyr
• ? Old French: martire
  • French: martyr
  • ? Middle English: martir
    • Scots: mairtyr
    • English: martyr
      • ? Maori: matira
  • Norman: martyr
• ? Italian: martire
• Neapolitan: marture
• Old Italian: martore
• ? Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: màrtir
  • Occitan: martir
• ? Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: mártir
  • Portuguese: mártir
• 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, 1883–1887)

Norman

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek ?????? (mártur), later form of ?????? (mártus, “witness”).

Noun

martyr m (plural martyrs)

1. (religion) martyr

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek ?????? (mártur), later form of ?????? (mártus, “witness”).

Noun

martyr m (definite singular martyren, indefinite plural martyrer, definite plural martyrene)

1. martyr

Related terms

• martre
• martyrdød
• martyrium

References

• “martyr” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek ?????? (mártur), later form of ?????? (mártus, “witness”).

Noun

martyr m (definite singular martyren, indefinite plural martyrar, definite plural martyrane)

1. martyr

Related terms

• martyrdød
• martyrium

References

• “martyr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• martyre, martir

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek ?????? (mártur), later form of ?????? (mártus, “witness”).

Noun

martyr m

1. martyr

Declension

Derived terms

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “martyr”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek ?????? (mártur), later form of ?????? (mártus, “witness”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -y?r

Noun

martyr c

1. martyr

Declension

Related terms

• martyrskap

English

Etymology

assassinate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??sæs.?.?ne?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

assassination (plural assassinations)

1. The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.

   The assassination of the king occurred at night.

Related terms

• assassin
• royal assassin

Translations

See also

• targeted killing