ἀρχιατρός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀρχιητρός (arkhiētrós) — Ionic

Etymology

From ἀρχι- (arkhi-) +‎ ἰᾱτρός (iātrós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.kʰi.aː.trós/ → /ar.çi.aˈtros/ → /ar.çi.aˈtros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰi.aː.trós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰi.aˈtros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.çi.aˈtros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.çi.aˈtros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ar.çi.aˈtros/

Noun

ἀρχῐᾱτρός • (arkhĭātrós) m (genitive ἀρχῐᾱτροῦ); second declension

1. court or official physician
2. responsible practitioner

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ἀρχῐᾱτρός; τοῦ ἀρχῐᾱτροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀρχῐᾱτρός ho arkhĭātrós	τὼ ἀρχῐᾱτρώ tṑ arkhĭātrṓ	οἱ ἀρχῐᾱτροί hoi arkhĭātroí
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρχῐᾱτροῦ toû arkhĭātroû	τοῖν ἀρχῐᾱτροῖν toîn arkhĭātroîn	τῶν ἀρχῐᾱτρῶν tôn arkhĭātrôn
Dative	τῷ ἀρχῐᾱτρῷ tôi arkhĭātrôi	τοῖν ἀρχῐᾱτροῖν toîn arkhĭātroîn	τοῖς ἀρχῐᾱτροῖς toîs arkhĭātroîs
Accusative	τὸν ἀρχῐᾱτρόν tòn arkhĭātrón	τὼ ἀρχῐᾱτρώ tṑ arkhĭātrṓ	τοὺς ἀρχῐᾱτρούς toùs arkhĭātroús
Vocative	ἀρχῐᾱτρέ arkhĭātré	ἀρχῐᾱτρώ arkhĭātrṓ	ἀρχῐᾱτροί arkhĭātroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: archiāter (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• ἀρχιατρός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• ἀρχιατρός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἀρχιατρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press