Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἰατρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰατρικός

Structure: ἰατρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: i)atro/s

Sense

  1. of or for a surgeon, surgery, medicine
  2. skilled in the medical art

Examples

  • καὶ ἔγραψε δι’ ἐπῶν Περὶ Φύσεωσ τῶν Ὄντων βιβλία β́ καὶ ἔστιν ἔπη ὡσ δισχίλια, Ιἀτρικὰ καταλογάδην καὶ ἄλλα πολλά. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section14)
  • καὶ ἀρίστουσ δὲ καὶ θεοφιλεστάτουσ ἔφη εἶναι ἐν μὲν γεωργίᾳ τοὺσ τὰ γεωργικὰ εὖ πράττοντασ, ἐν δ’ ἰατρείᾳ τοὺσ τὰ ἰατρικά, ἐν δὲ πολιτείᾳ τοὺσ τὰ πολιτικά· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 9 21:1)
  • ἰατρικὰ ἄρα καὶ ἰατρικοὶ νόμοι ταῦτα τὰ συγγράμματα ἐστὶν τὰ τῶν ἰατρῶν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 22:2)
  • ἰατρικὰ μέντοι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 22:3)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ ὁ Σοφοκλῆσ τόν σφισιν ἐπιδεικνύμενον τὰ πρὸ τραγῳδίασ ἂν φαίη ἀλλ’ οὐ τὰ τραγικά, καὶ ὁ Ἀκουμενὸσ τὰ πρὸ ἰατρικῆσ ἀλλ’ οὐ τὰ ἰατρικά. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 278:1)

Synonyms

  1. skilled in the medical art

Related

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

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