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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

  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ἡ κάθαρσισ καὶ οἱ καθαρμοὶ καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἰατρικὴν καὶ κατὰ τὴν μαντικὴν καὶ αἱ τοῖσ ἰατρικοῖσ φαρμάκοισ καὶ αἱ τοῖσ μαντικοῖσ περιθειώσεισ τε καὶ τὰ λουτρὰ τὰ ἐν τοῖσ τοιούτοισ καὶ αἱ περιρράνσεισ, πάντα ἕν τι ταῦτα δύναιτ’ ἄν, καθαρὸν παρέχειν τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα καὶ κατὰ τὴν ψυχήν· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 131:3)
  • τῶν τεχνῶν μηκέτι ἐπιτρέπειν ἄρχειν αὐτοκράτορι μηδετέρᾳ μήτ’ οὖν δούλων μήτ’ ἐλευθέρων, συλλέξαι δ’ ἐκκλησίαν ἡμῶν αὐτῶν, ἢ σύμπαντα τὸν δῆμον ἢ τοὺσ πλουσίουσ μόνον, ἐξεῖναι δὲ καὶ ἰδιωτῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων δημιουργῶν περί τε πλοῦ καὶ περὶ νόσων γνώμην ξυμβαλέσθαι καθ’ ὅτι χρὴ τοῖσ φαρμάκοισ ἡμᾶσ καὶ τοῖσ ἰατρικοῖσ ὀργάνοισ πρὸσ τοὺσ κάμνοντασ χρῆσθαι, καὶ δὴ καὶ τοῖσ πλοίοισ τε αὐτοῖσ καὶ τοῖσ ναυτικοῖσ ὀργάνοισ εἰσ τὴν τῶν πλοίων χρείαν καὶ περὶ τοὺσ κινδύνουσ τούσ τε πρὸσ αὐτὸν τὸν πλοῦν ἀνέμων καὶ θαλάττησ πέρι καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ τοῖσ λῃσταῖσ ἐντεύξεισ, καὶ ἐὰν ναυμαχεῖν ἄρα δέῃ που μακροῖσ πλοίοισ πρὸσ ἕτερα τοιαῦτα· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 249:1)

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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