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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἰᾱτρός (iātrós) + -είᾱ (-eíā)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.aː.trěː.aː/ → /i.aˈtri.a/ → /i.aˈtri.a/
Noun
ἰᾱτρείᾱ • (iātreíā) f (genitive ἰᾱτρείᾱς); first declension
- medical treatment
- (figurative) curing, correcting
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἰατρεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἰατρεία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἰατρεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press