ἰατρός
See also: ιατρός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἰητρός (iētrós) – Epic, Ionic
Etymology
From ἰάομαι (iáomai, “heal”) + -τρος (-tros, masculine agent-noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /iː.aː.trós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /i.aˈtros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.aˈtros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.aˈtros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.aˈtros/
Noun
ῑ̓ᾱτρός • (īātrós) m (genitive ῑ̓ᾱτροῦ); second declension (Attic, Koine)
- physician, surgeon, medical doctor
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ῑ̓ᾱτρός; τοῦ ῑ̓ᾱτροῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῑ̓ᾱτρός ho īātrós | τὼ ῑ̓ᾱτρώ tṑ īātrṓ | οἱ ῑ̓ᾱτροί hoi īātroí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῑ̓ᾱτροῦ toû īātroû | τοῖν ῑ̓ᾱτροῖν toîn īātroîn | τῶν ῑ̓ᾱτρῶν tôn īātrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῑ̓ᾱτρῷ tôi īātrôi | τοῖν ῑ̓ᾱτροῖν toîn īātroîn | τοῖς ῑ̓ᾱτροῖς toîs īātroîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῑ̓ᾱτρόν tòn īātrón | τὼ ῑ̓ᾱτρώ tṑ īātrṓ | τοὺς ῑ̓ᾱτρούς toùs īātroús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῑ̓ᾱτρέ īātré | ῑ̓ᾱτρώ īātrṓ | ῑ̓ᾱτροί īātroí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ῑ̓ᾱτήρ (īātḗr)
- ῑ̓ᾱτός (īātós)
- ῑ̓ᾱτρείᾱ (īātreíā)
- ῑ̓ᾱτρεύω (īātreúō)
- ῑ̓ᾱτρικός (īātrikós)
- ῑ̓ᾱτρόμαντις (īātrómantis)
Descendants
- Greek: γιατρός m or f (giatrós), ιατρός m or f (iatrós)
- English: iatro-
- iatroculture
- iatrogenic
- iatric, -iatrics
- -iatry
- Italian -iatra, -iatria
- Spanish: -iatra
- Polish: jatrogenny, -iatra, -iatria
Further reading
- “ἰατρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰατρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἰατρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- “ἰατρός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2395 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- curer idem, page 190.
- doctor idem, page 245.
- healer idem, page 391.
- leech idem, page 484.
- physician idem, page 611.
- practitioner idem, page 631.
- surgeon idem, page 843.