Mathathias

English

Proper noun

Mathathias

  1. Alternative spelling of Mattathias
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Mathathias.

Latin

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mathathiās m sg (genitive Mathathiae); first declension

  1. Alternative spelling of Mattathiās
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Mathathias.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Mathathiās
Genitive Mathathiae
Dative Mathathiae
Accusative Mathathiān
Ablative Mathathiā
Vocative Mathathiā

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

  • Mathatias (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Latin Mathathiās, an alternative form of Mattathiās, from Ancient Greek Μᾰττᾰθῐ́ᾱς (Mattathíās), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mataˈtias/

Proper noun

Mathathias m

  1. (biblical) Mattathias
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 76r:
      EN ieruſalem era mathathias. [] ⁊ era om̃e q̃ amaua el criador [] e lo temie e ouo .v. fijos muy buenos cauallós e el uno uo nõbre iudas macabeus. e el otro ionatan. ⁊ leaza. e ſimeon. e ioan
      [There] lived in Jerusalem Mattathias, and he was a man that loved the Creator and feared Him. And he had five sons, very upright men, and one had the name Judas Maccabeus, and the other Jonathan, and Eleazar and Simon and John.

Descendants

  • Spanish: Matatías
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