Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἰητρός ‎(iētrós) Epic, Ionic

Noun

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

1. physician, surgeon

Inflection

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Greek: γιατρός m, f ‎(giatrós), ιατρός m, f ‎(iatrós)
• English: iatro-
  • iatroculture, iatrogenic
  • 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, 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.