ἰατρεία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἰητρείη (iētreíē) — Ionic

Etymology

From ἰᾱτρεύω (iātreúō) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

(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

medical treatment
(figurative) curing, correcting

Declension

First declension of ἡ ῐ̓ᾱτρείᾱ; τῆς ῐ̓ᾱτρείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ῐ̓ᾱτρείᾱ hē ĭātreíā
Genitive	τῆς ῐ̓ᾱτρείᾱς tês ĭātreíās
Dative	τῇ ῐ̓ᾱτρείᾳ tēî ĭātreíāi
Accusative	τὴν ῐ̓ᾱτρείᾱν tḕn ĭātreíān
Vocative	ῐ̓ᾱτρείᾱ ĭātreíā
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] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“ἰατρεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press