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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

  • ἀμέλει οὐδέν σοι τῶν χαλεπῶν τούτων νοσημάτων πρόσεισιν, ἀλλ’ ἤν ποτε κοῦφοσ πυρετὸσ ἐπιλάβηται, πρὸσ ὀλίγον ὑπηρετήσασ αὐτῷ ἀνεπήδησασ εὐθὺσ ἀποσεισάμενοσ τὴν ἄσην, ὁ δὲ φεύγει αὐτίκα φοβηθείσ, ψυχροῦ σε ὁρῶν ἐμφορούμενον καὶ μακρὰ οἰμώζειν λέγοντα ταῖσ ἰατρικαῖσ περιόδοισ· (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 23:3)

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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