θεραπευτής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I wait on, attend, serve, cure”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).

Noun

θερᾰπευτής • (therapeutḗs) m (genitive θερᾰπευτοῦ); first declension

1. One who waits upon another; attendant.
   1. worshiper (who waits upon a deity)
   2. courtier (who waits upon a ruler)
   3. medical attendant (who waits upon someone who's ill)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ θερᾰπευτής; τοῦ θερᾰπευτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θερᾰπευτής ho therapeutḗs	τὼ θερᾰπευτᾱ́ tṑ therapeutā́	οἱ θερᾰπευταί hoi therapeutaí
Genitive	τοῦ θερᾰπευτοῦ toû therapeutoû	τοῖν θερᾰπευταῖν toîn therapeutaîn	τῶν θερᾰπευτῶν tôn therapeutôn
Dative	τῷ θερᾰπευτῇ tôi therapeutêi	τοῖν θερᾰπευταῖν toîn therapeutaîn	τοῖς θερᾰπευταῖς toîs therapeutaîs
Accusative	τὸν θερᾰπευτήν tòn therapeutḗn	τὼ θερᾰπευτᾱ́ tṑ therapeutā́	τοὺς θερᾰπευτᾱ́ς toùs therapeutā́s
Vocative	θερᾰπευτᾰ́ therapeutá	θερᾰπευτᾱ́ therapeutā́	θερᾰπευταί therapeutaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θερᾰπευτῐκός (therapeutikós)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: terapeuta
• → Czech: terapeut
• → Danish: terapeut
• → Dutch: therapeut
• → Finnish: terapeutti
• → French: thérapeute
• → German: Therapeut
• → Hungarian: terapeuta
• → Italian: terapeuta
• → Norwegian: terapeut
• → Polish: terapeuta
• → Portuguese: terapeuta
• → Romanian: terapeut
• → Russian: терапе́вт (terapévt)
• → Serbo-Croatian: terapèut
• → Spanish: terapeuta
• → Swedish: terapeut

Further reading

• “θεραπευτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θεραπευτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θεραπευτής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adorer idem, page 13.
  • devotee idem, page 221.
  • minister idem, page 531.
  • nurse idem, page 563.
  • votary idem, page 957.
  • worshipper idem, page 990.