Erasistratus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρασίστρατος (Erasístratos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛ.raˈsɪs.tra.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.raˈs̬is.t̪ra.t̪us]

Erasistratus m sg (genitive Erasistratī); second declension

1. A famous physician of Alexandria and founder of a medical school

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Erasistratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Erasistratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Erasistratus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Erasistratus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray