martyr

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

martyr, yris, comm., = μάρτυρ,

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

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