iatraliptes Latin · revision 37030

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=14–37 AD, Celsus|origins=grc ἰατραλείπτης}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''iātraliptēs''' ''m'' (genitive iātraliptae); first declension^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ Celsus has the spelling ''iatroaliptēs'', and an inscription ''iatrolipt-''.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

+ Gaffiot also gives a form ''iātralīpta''.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἰατραλείπτης|tr=iatraleíptēs]].^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) Köbler compares [[m|grc|ἰατρός|tr=iātrós|t=physician]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Celsus, who writes that a healthy man should bind himself by no rules and need neither a physician nor an ''iatraliptes'' (''neque medico neque iatroalipta egere'').^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Pliny the Elder explains that it first named the physician's assistant who anointed the patient, and Georges notes that it later named the physician himself, who healed by external means and a prescribed way of life.^(Georges 1913) In Petronius three masseurs drink Falernian wine (''tres interim iatraliptae … Falernum potabant'').^(TLL) Pliny the Younger asked Trajan for Roman citizenship for his ''iatraliptes'' Harpocras, whom he had engaged during a grave illness.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it beside ''medicus''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of masseurs.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder explains it as the physician's assistant.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|masseur]], one who treats the body by [[m|en|anointing]] and rubbing.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # A physician who heals by such external means and by [[m|en|regimen]].^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[iātralīpticē]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}