ἰατρεία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἰητρείη (iētreíē) — Ionic

Etymology

From ἰᾱτρός (iātrós) +‎ -είᾱ (-eíā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.aː.trěː.aː/ → /i.aˈtri.a/ → /i.aˈtri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.aː.trěː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.aˈtri.a/

Noun

ἰᾱτρείᾱ • (iātreíā) f (genitive ἰᾱτρείᾱς); first declension

1. medical treatment
2. (figurative) curing, correcting

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἰ̆ᾱτρείᾱ; τῆς ἰ̆ᾱτρείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ἰ̆ᾱτρείᾱ hē iātreíā
Genitive	τῆς ἰ̆ᾱτρείᾱς tês iātreíās
Dative	τῇ ἰ̆ᾱτρείᾳ têi iātreíāi
Accusative	τὴν ἰ̆ᾱτρείᾱν tḕn iātreíān
Vocative	ἰ̆ᾱτρείᾱ iātreíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: γιατρειά (giatreiá)
• → Russian: иатрия (iatrija)
• → Ukrainian: -іатрія (-iatrija)
• → Latin: -iatria
  • → Danish: -iatri
  • → English: -iatry
  • → Finnish: -iatri
  • French: -iatrie
  • → German: -iatrie
  • → Hungarian: -iátria
  • Italian: -iatria
  • → Latvian: -iatrija
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: -iatri
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: -iatri
  • → Polish: -iatria
  • Portuguese: -iatria
  • Spanish: -iatría
  • → Swedish: -iatri

Further reading

• ἰατρεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἰατρεία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἰατρεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press