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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἰάομαι (iáomai, “heal”) + -τρος (-tros, masculine agent-noun suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iː.aː.trós/ → /i.aˈtros/ → /i.aˈtros/
Noun
ῑ̓ᾱτρός • (īātrós) m (genitive ῑ̓ᾱτροῦ); second declension (Attic, Koine)
- physician, surgeon, medical doctor
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References
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “ἰατρός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011