Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Μαθθαῖος ‎(Maththaîos)

Proper noun

Ματθαῖος • ‎(Matthaîos) m ‎(genitive Ματθαίου); second declension

1. Matthew (disciple of Jesus in Christianity)
   • Palatine Anthology 1.83

Inflection

Descendants

• Bulgarian: Матей ‎(Matej)
• Catalan: Mateu
• Cantonese: 馬太(瑪竇)
• Dutch: Matteüs
• English: Matthew
• Estonian: Matteus
• Finnish: Matteus
• French: Matthieu, Mathieu
• German: Matthäus
• Greek: Ματθαίος ‎(Matthaíos)
• Italian: Matteo
• Japanese: マタイ ‎(Matai)
• Latin: Matthaeus, Mattheus
• Macedonian: Матеј ‎(Matej)
• Polish: Mateusz
• Portuguese: Mateus
• Russian: Матфей ‎(Matfej)
• Serbo-Croatian: Matej
• Slovenian: Matej
• Spanish: Mateo
• Swedish: Matteus
• Ukrainian: Матвій ‎(Matvij)

Usage notes

The variant Μαθθαῖος ‎(Maththaîos) is found on earlier manuscripts.

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G3156”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• NA27