Herophilus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἡρόφιλος (Hēróphilos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [heːˈrɔ.pʰɪ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈrɔː.fi.lus]

Hērophilus m sg (genitive Hērophilī); second declension

1. A celebrated physician, native of Calcedon in Bithynia

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Herophilus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray