ἰατρός

See also: ιατρός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἰητρός ‎(iētrós) (Homeric, Ionic)

Etymology

From ἰάομαι ‎(iáomai, “heal”)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /i͜i.atrós/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /iːatrós/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /iatrós/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /iatrós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /iatɾós/

Noun

ῑ̓ατρός • ‎(īatrós) m ‎(genitive ἰατροῦ); second declension

1. physician, surgeon

Inflection

Second declension of ἰατρός, ἰατροῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἰατρός	τὼ ἰατρώ	οἱ ἰατροί
Genitive	τοῦ ἰατροῦ	τοῖν ἰατροῖν	τῶν ἰατρῶν
Dative	τῷ ἰατρῷ	τοῖν ἰατροῖν	τοῖς ἰατροῖς
Accusative	τὸν ἰατρόν	τὼ ἰατρώ	τοὺς ἰατρούς
Vocative	ἰατρέ	ἰατρώ	ἰατροί
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Derived terms

• ἰατήρ ‎(iatḗr)
• ἰατός ‎(iatós)
• ἰατρεία ‎(iatreía)
• ἰατρικός ‎(iatrikós)

Descendants

• Greek: γιατρός m, f ‎(giatrós), ιατρός m, f ‎(iatrós)
• English:

• iatroculture, iatrogenic
• iatrogenic
• iatric, -iatrics
• -iatry

• Italian & Spanish: -iatra
• Polish:

• jatrogenny
• -iatra
• -iatria

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], 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.