ἰήσασθαι

ἰάομαι

j: aor inf mp (attic ionic)

ἰάομαι

j: aor inf mp (attic ionic)

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `heal'.

Other forms: Aor. ἰάσασθαι, Ion. ἰήσασθαι (Il.), pass. ἰάθην, ἰήθην (IA), fut. ἰάσομαι, ἰήσομαι (Od.), perf. ἴαμαι (Ev. Marc. 5, 29),

Dialectal forms: Myc. ijate

Compounds: rarely with prefix ( ἐξ-, ἐπ-),

Derivatives: 1. ἴαμα, ἴημα (Ion. forms not esp. noted) n. `medicine, healing' (IA) with ἰαματικός (Cyran.); 2. ἴασις `healing' (IA) with ἰάσιμος `curable' (Arbenz Die Adj. auf - ιμος 71f.), prob. also ἰασιώνη plant-name, `Convolvulus sepium (?)' (Thphr., Plin.); Strömberg Pflanzennamen 81 because of the medical (though unknown) use; 3. Ίασώ f. name of a healing goddess (Ar., Herod.), from ἴασις or from the aor., cf. Καλυψώ. 4. ἰατήρ `physician' (Il., Cypr., with ἰήτειρα adj. f. `healing' (Marc. Sid.), ἰατήριον`medicine, healing' (medic., Q. S.); 5. ἰάτωρ `id.' (Alcm., Thess. inscr.) with ἰατορία `medical art' (B., S. in lyr.); 6. ἰατής `id.' (LXX) with ἰατικός (Str.) 7. usu.. ἰατρός `id.' (Il.), with ἰατρικός, ἡ ἰατρική ( τέχνη) `art of healing' (IA), ἰάτρια f. `midwife' (Alex.), ἰατρίνη `id.' (Rom. empire, cf. Schulze Kl. Schr. 428 m. n. 3), ἰατρεύω `heal' (Hp.) with ἰατρεία, - εῖον, ἰάτρευσις, - ευμα, - ευτικός; 8. ἴατρα n. pl. `payment for healing' (Epidauros, Herod.). More on ἰατήρ, ἰάτωρ, ἰατρός in Fraenkel Nom. ag. (s. index); on the diff. ἰατήρ: ἰάτωρ Benveniste Noms d'agent 46, also Schwyzer 531. - Here Ἰάσων? (s.v.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: Unexplained. Compared with ἰαίνω, Brugmann Grundr. 2¹, 1086 (= 2²: 3, 199) proposes: ἰῶμαι \< *isā-i̯o-mai beside ἰαίνω = Skt. iṣaṇ-yá-ti like δρῶ \< *drā-i̯ō beside δραίνω (but δραίνω is rather an innovation, s. on δράω. Schwyzer 681 a. 683 explains ἰάομαι as thematic tansformation of an athematic *ἴᾰ-μαι (in Ία-μενόν Μ 139, 193 and in Cypr. ἰϳασθαι?); but such a form can hardly be IE. Diff. Wißmann Nom. postv. 1, 127 n. 1: ἰάομαι deverbative. - Doubts on the connection with ἰαίνω in Schulze Q. 381f.; wrong Ehrlich Betonung 136 (to Lat. sānus) and Theander Eranos 20, 33 (from ἰά). On the quantity of the ἰ- (in Hom. ῑ-, later also ῐ-) Schulze l. c., Sommer Lautstud. 9f. See N. van Brock, Vocab. médic. 9ff. Laryngalbetrachtungen bei Sturtevant Lang. 16, 86f.

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