ἰατρός

See also: ιατρός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἰητρός (iētrós) – Epic, Ionic

Etymology

From ἰάομαι (iáomai, “heal”) +‎ -τρος (-tros, masculine agent-noun suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.aː.trós/ → /i.aˈtros/ → /i.aˈtros/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.aː.trós/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtros/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtros/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtros/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtros/

Noun

ῑ̓ᾱτρός • (īātrós) m (genitive ῑ̓ᾱτροῦ); second declension

1. physician, surgeon

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῑ̓ᾱτρός; τοῦ ῑ̓ᾱτροῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῑ̓ᾱτρός	τὼ ῑ̓ᾱτρώ	οἱ ῑ̓ᾱτροί
Genitive	τοῦ ῑ̓ᾱτροῦ	τοῖν ῑ̓ᾱτροῖν	τῶν ῑ̓ᾱτρῶν
Dative	τῷ ῑ̓ᾱτρῷ	τοῖν ῑ̓ᾱτροῖν	τοῖς ῑ̓ᾱτροῖς
Accusative	τὸν ῑ̓ᾱτρόν	τὼ ῑ̓ᾱτρώ	τοὺς ῑ̓ᾱτρούς
Vocative	ῑ̓ᾱτρέ	ῑ̓ᾱτρώ	ῑ̓ᾱτροί
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῑ̓ᾱτήρ (īātḗr)
• ῑ̓ᾱτός (īātós)
• ῑ̓ᾱτρείᾱ (īātreíā)
• ῑ̓ᾱτρικός (īātrikós)

Descendants

• Greek: γιατρός m, f (giatrós), ιατρός m, f (iatrós)
• English: iatro-
  • iatroculture
  • iatrogenic
  • iatric, -iatrics
  • -iatry
• Italian -iatra
• 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.