ἰατρεῖον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῑ̓ητρεῖον (īētreîon) — Ionic

Etymology

From ῑ̓ᾱτρεύω (īātreúō, “to treat medically, to cure”) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.aː.trêː.on/ → /i.aˈtri.on/ → /i.aˈtri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.aː.trêː.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtri.on/

Noun

ῑ̓ᾰτρεῖον • (īătreîon) n (genitive ῑ̓ᾰτρείου); second declension

1. surgery, a doctor's office, a clinic
   • 375 BCE, Plato, The Republic 405A
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 1.40
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.1.3
2. remedy
3. expense of a cure
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 21.19

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ῑ̓ᾱτρεῖον; τοῦ ῑ̓ᾱτρείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῑ̓ᾱτρεῖον tò īātreîon	τὼ ῑ̓ᾱτρείω tṑ īātreíō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̓ᾱτρεῖᾰ tằ īātreîă
Genitive	τοῦ ῑ̓ᾱτρείου toû īātreíou	τοῖν ῑ̓ᾱτρείοιν toîn īātreíoin	τῶν ῑ̓ᾱτρείων tôn īātreíōn
Dative	τῷ ῑ̓ᾱτρείῳ tōî īātreíōi	τοῖν ῑ̓ᾱτρείοιν toîn īātreíoin	τοῖς ῑ̓ᾱτρείοις toîs īātreíois
Accusative	τὸ ῑ̓ᾱτρεῖον tò īātreîon	τὼ ῑ̓ᾱτρείω tṑ īātreíō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̓ᾱτρεῖᾰ tằ īātreîă
Vocative	ῑ̓ᾱτρεῖον īātreîon	ῑ̓ᾱτρείω īātreíō	ῑ̓ᾱτρεῖᾰ īātreîă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: ιατρείο (iatreío) (learned)

Further reading

• “ἰατρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰατρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἰατρεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἰατρεῖον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011