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martyr
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)
- One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.
- (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.
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)
- (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.
- (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)
- 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)
- 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
- (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)
- (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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- martyr
Declension
Related terms
- martyrskap
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selflessness
English
Etymology
selfless +? -ness
Noun
selflessness (usually uncountable, plural selflessnesses)
- The quality or state of being selfless.
Antonyms
- selfishness
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