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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

  • διὸ δὴ τάχα μοι καὶ ἰατρικῆσ δεήσειν ποτὲ προσεδόκων. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 3:7)
  • τὸ δὲ τῆσ ἰατρικῆσ ὅσῳ σεμνότερόν ἐστιν καὶ τῷ βίῳ χρησιμώτερον, τοσούτῳ καὶ ἐλευθεριώτερον εἶναι προσήκει τοῖσ χρωμένοισ, καί τινα προνομίαν ἔχειν τὴν τέχνην δίκαιον τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ τῆσ χρήσεωσ, ἀναγκάζεσθαι δὲ μηδὲν μηδὲ προστάττεσθαι πρᾶγμα ἱερὸν καὶ θεῶν παίδευμα καὶ ἀνθρώπων σοφῶν ἐπιτήδευμα, μηδ’ ὑπὸ δουλείαν γενέσθαι νόμου μηδ’ ὑπὸ ψῆφον ^ καὶ τιμωρίαν δικαστηρίου, μηδὲ ὑπὸ φόβον ^ καὶ πατρὸσ ἀπειλὴν καὶ ὀργὴν ἰδιωτικήν. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 23:1)
  • τοῦτο δέ, οὑτωσὶ μὲν ἁπλῶσ ἀκοῦσαι, πάνυ εὔλογον ἂν δόξειεν, καὶ μάλιστα ἰδιώτῃ καὶ ἀπείρῳ ἰατρικῆσ· (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 26:4)
  • "ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ θεοὺσ σέβω καὶ ἰάσεισ αὐτῶν ὁρῶ καὶ ἃ εὖ ποιοῦσι τοὺσ κάμνοντασ ὑπὸ φαρμάκων καὶ ἰατρικῆσ ἀνιστάντεσ· (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 10:4)
  • καίτοι ἐκεῖνοσ ἰατρικῆσ πέρι ταῦτ̓ ἔλεγεν, εὐμαθεστέρου πράγματοσ· (Lucian, 3:2)

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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