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ἰητρός (ietros)

ἰητρός is an Ancient Greek form of ἰατρός, meaning “doctor”. It is the nominative singular masculine noun.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plato, Symposium 214: … ονεστάτου, χαῖρε. καὶ γὰρ σύ, φάναι τὸν Ἐρυξίμαχον· ἀλλὰ τί ποιῶμεν; ὅτι ἂν σὺ κελεύῃς. δεῖ γάρ σοι πείθεσθαι·ἰητρὸς γὰρ ἀνὴρ πολλῶν ἀντάξιος ἄλλων· ἐπίταττε οὖν ὅτι βούλει. ἄκουσον δή, εἰπεῖν τὸν Ἐρυξίμαχον. ἡμῖν πρὶν σὲ εἰσε …

Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus 1.2.11: … ᾶν ταῦτα. ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν. ἡ τέχνη διὰ τριῶν, τὸ νόσημα καὶ ὁ νοσέων καὶ ὁ ἰητρός· ὁ ἰητρὸς ὑπηρέτης τῆς τέχνης· ὑπεναντιοῦσθαι τῷ νοσήματι τὸν νοσέοντα μετὰ τοῦ ἰητροῦ.

All forms of ἰατρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.