Martyrium Definition

mär-tîrē-əm
martyria
noun
A church or other edifice built at a site, especially a tomb, associated with a Christian martyr or saint.
American Heritage
(rhetoric) Confirming something by referring to one's own experience.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Martyrium

Noun

Singular:
martyrium
Plural:
martyria, martyriums

Origin of Martyrium

  • From Ecclesiastical Latin martyrium, from Ancient Greek μαρτύριον (martyrion, “testimony").

    From Wiktionary

  • Medieval Latin from Greek marturion from martus martur- martyr

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Martyrium Sentence Examples

  • He must have been born not later than the year 69, for on the day of his death (c. 155) he declared that he had served the Lord for eighty-six years (Martyrium, 9).

  • In that year appeared Waddington's Mdmoire sur la chronologie de la vie du rheteur Aelius Aristide, in which it was shown from a most acute combination of circumstances that the Quadratus whose name is mentioned in the Martyrium was proconsul of Asia in 155-156, and that consequently Polycarp was martyred on the 23rd of February 155.

  • Another legend, his Martyrium, makes him labour and suffer in Mysore.

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Words Starting With

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