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

Noun

ῑ̓ᾱτρός • (īātrós) m (genitive ῑ̓ᾱτροῦ); second declension (Attic, Koine)

1. physician, surgeon, medical doctor

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῑ̓ᾱτρός; τοῦ ῑ̓ᾱτροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀρχίατρος (arkhíatros) (cf. Arzt)
• ῑ̓ᾱτήρ (īātḗr)
• ῑ̓ᾱτός (īātós)
• ῑ̓ᾱτρείᾱ (īātreíā)
• ῑ̓ᾱτρεύω (īātreúō)
• ῑ̓ᾱτρικός (īātrikós)
• ῑ̓ᾱτρόμαντις (īātrómantis)
• ἱππιᾱτρός (hippiātrós)

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^[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.
• ἰατρός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011