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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

  • ἔστι γὰρ ἰατρική, ὡσ ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰπεῖν, ἐπιστήμη τῶν τοῦ σώματοσ ἐρωτικῶν πρὸσ πλησμονὴν καὶ κένωσιν, καὶ ὁ διαγιγνώσκων ἐν τούτοισ τὸν καλόν τε καὶ αἰσχρὸν ἔρωτα, οὗτόσ ἐστιν ὁ ἰατρικώτατοσ, καὶ ὁ μεταβάλλειν ποιῶν, ὥστε ἀντὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου ἔρωτοσ τὸν ἕτερον κτᾶσθαι, καὶ οἷσ μὴ ἔνεστιν ἔρωσ, δεῖ δ’ ἐγγενέσθαι, ἐπιστάμενοσ ἐμποιῆσαι καὶ ἐνόντα ἐξελεῖν, ἀγαθὸσ ἂν εἰή δημιουργόσ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 123:1)
  • "καίτοι φαρμάκων δυνάμεωσ ὁ ἰατρικώτατοσ ἄριστοσ κριτὴσ καὶ μελῶν ἀρετῆσ ὁ φιλομουσότατοσ, οὐκοῦν καὶ ἀρετῆσ ὄψων ὁ φιλοψότατοσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 10:15)

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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