ἰατρεῖον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἰητρεῖον (iētreîon) — Ionic

Etymology

From ἰατρεύω (iatreúō, “to treat medically, to cure”) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.a.trêː.on/ → /i.aˈtri.on/ → /i.aˈtri.on/

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

Noun

ἰατρεῖον • (iatreîon) n (genitive ἰᾰτρείου); second declension

1. surgery, a doctor's office, a clinic
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 405A
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 1.40
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.1.3
2. remedy
3. expense of a cure
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 21.19

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ἰᾰτρεῖον; τοῦ ἰᾰτρείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἰᾰτρεῖον tò iătreîon	τὼ ἰᾰτρείω tṑ iătreíō	τᾰ̀ ἰᾰτρεῖᾰ tằ iătreîă
Genitive	τοῦ ἰᾰτρείου toû iătreíou	τοῖν ἰᾰτρείοιν toîn iătreíoin	τῶν ἰᾰτρείων tôn iătreíōn
Dative	τῷ ἰᾰτρείῳ tôi iătreíōi	τοῖν ἰᾰτρείοιν toîn iătreíoin	τοῖς ἰᾰτρείοις toîs iătreíois
Accusative	τὸ ἰᾰτρεῖον tò iătreîon	τὼ ἰᾰτρείω tṑ iătreíō	τᾰ̀ ἰᾰτρεῖᾰ tằ iătreîă
Vocative	ἰᾰτρεῖον iătreîon	ἰᾰτρείω iătreíō	ἰᾰτρεῖᾰ iătreîă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: ιατρείο (iatreío) (learned)

Further reading

• “ἰατρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰατρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἰατρεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἰατρεῖον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011