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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

  • ἄπορον δὲ καὶ τί ὠφεληθήσεται ὑφάντησ ἢ τέκτων πρὸσ τὴν αὑτοῦ τέχνην εἰδὼσ τὸ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἀγαθόν, ἢ πῶσ ἰατρικώτεροσ ἢ στρατηγικώτεροσ ἔσται ὁ τὴν ἰδέαν αὐτὴν τεθεαμένοσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 51:3)

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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