ἱππιατρός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἱπποΐατρος (hippoḯatros)

Etymology

ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) +‎ ἰᾱτρός (iātrós, “physician”)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hip.piː.aː.trós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ip.pi.aˈtros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ip.pi.aˈtros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ip.pi.aˈtros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.pi.aˈtros/

Noun

ἱππιᾱτρός • (hippiātrós) m (genitive ἱππιᾱτροῦ); second declension

a veterinary surgeon, a farrier
- 2nd century B.C.E., Inscriptiones Graecae 9(2).69.5
- 1 CE – 200 CE, Aelius Herodianus, On Peculiar Style 1.229.10–11:
  τὸ δὲ ἰατρός φ ι λ ί α τ ρ ο ς ἀναβιβάζει καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀ ρ χ ι α τ ρ ό ς καὶ ἱ π π ι α τ ρ ό ς φυλάττει.
  tò dè iatrós p h i l í a t r o s anabibázei kaì en tôi a r k h i a t r ó s kaì h i p p i a t r ó s phuláttei.
- C.E. 3rd century, PGen. 42.35
- 5th–6th centuries AD, Τῶν Ἱππιατρικῶν βιβλία δύο· Veterinæ Medicinæ libri duo 12
- 5th–6th centuries AD, Τῶν Ἱππιατρικῶν βιβλία δύο· Veterinæ Medicinæ libri duo 27
- CIG 1953, (from Macedonia)
- C.E. 4th century, Oxyrhynchus Papyri 92
- Anthology of Planudes 4.271

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ἱππιᾱτρός; τοῦ ἱππιᾱτροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἱππιᾱτρός ho hippiātrós	τὼ ἱππιᾱτρώ tṑ hippiātrṓ	οἱ ἱππιᾱτροί hoi hippiātroí
Genitive	τοῦ ἱππιᾱτροῦ toû hippiātroû	τοῖν ἱππιᾱτροῖν toîn hippiātroîn	τῶν ἱππιᾱτρῶν tôn hippiātrôn
Dative	τῷ ἱππιᾱτρῷ tôi hippiātrôi	τοῖν ἱππιᾱτροῖν toîn hippiātroîn	τοῖς ἱππιᾱτροῖς toîs hippiātroîs
Accusative	τὸν ἱππιᾱτρόν tòn hippiātrón	τὼ ἱππιᾱτρώ tṑ hippiātrṓ	τοὺς ἱππιᾱτρούς toùs hippiātroús
Vocative	ἱππιᾱτρέ hippiātré	ἱππιᾱτρώ hippiātrṓ	ἱππιᾱτροί hippiātroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἱππιᾱτρῐκός (hippiātrikós, adjective)

Descendants

→ Arabic: بَيْطَار (bayṭār)
→ Italian: ippiatra

Further reading

“ἱππιατρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἱππιατρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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