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ἰατρεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰατρεία

Structure: ἰατρει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: i)atreu/w

Sense

  1. medical treatment, a curing, correcting

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἰατρεία ἰατρείᾱ ἰατρεῖαι
Genitive ἰατρείᾱς ἰατρείαιν ἰατρειῶν
Dative ἰατρείᾱͅ ἰατρείαιν ἰατρείαις
Accusative ἰατρείᾱν ἰατρείᾱ ἰατρείᾱς
Vocative ἰατρείᾱ ἰατρείᾱ ἰατρεῖαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αἱ γὰρ κολάσεισ ἰατρεῖαι οὖσαι καὶ γινόμεναι διὰ τῶν ἐναντίων, καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων, διὰ τούτων εἰσίν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 41:1)
  • ἰατρεῖαι γάρ τινέσ εἰσιν, αἱ δὲ ἰατρεῖαι διὰ τῶν ἐναντίων πεφύκασι γίνεσθαι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2 27:2)
  • σφοδραὶ δὲ γίνονται αἱ ἰατρεῖαι, διὸ καὶ διώκονται, διὰ τὸ παρὰ τὸ ἐναντίον φαίνεσθαι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 163:4)
  • καὶ οὐ σπουδαῖον δὴ δοκεῖ ἡ ἡδονὴ διὰ δύο ταῦτα, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, ὅτι αἳ μὲν φαύλησ φύσεώσ εἰσι πράξεισ ἢ ἐκ γενετῆσ, ὥσπερ θηρίου, ἢ δι’ ἔθοσ, οἱο͂ν αἱ τῶν φαύλων ἀνθρώπων, αἳ δ’ ἰατρεῖαι ὅτι ἐνδεοῦσ, καὶ ἔχειν βέλτιον ἢ γίνεσθαι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 164:1)

Synonyms

  1. medical treatment

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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