The corpus record — Latin

martyr

martyr · comm

a witness

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Where it lives

Peristephanon Liber 21 · 11.95/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Pudicitia 2 · 1.49/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k

What it meant

martyr — Lewis & Short

martyr, ўris, comm., = ma/rtur,

I a witness; esp. one who by his death bears witness to the truth of the Christian religion, a martyr (eccl. Lat.): salvete flores Marty rum, Prud. Cath. 12, 125; Vulg. Apoc. 17, 6 —In fem.: Perpetua, fortissima martyr, Tert. Anim. 55.

In the wild

martyr Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 5.354
martyr Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.121
martyr Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 4.135
martyr Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 13.105
martyr Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.898
martyr Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 5

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. martyr (scan p. 412; entry #6586).

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