A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Archiater,-tri (s.m.II), abl.sg. archiatro, also archiatrus,-i (s.m.II) and archiatros,-i (s.m.II): > Gk. archiatros: ‘a chief physician originally of the court of a Hellenistic king or a Roman emperor” (WIII); official, chief or court physician [> Gk. arch-, chief + iatros, physician, healer]; after Classical times, used for an official doctor of a prince or city; an honorary title granted to doctors (healers);

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      singular    plural
Nom.  archiater  archiatri
Gen.  archiatri  archiatrorum
Dat.  archiatro  archiatris
Acc.  archiatrum archiatros
Abl.  archiatro  archiatris

Archiatrus (s.m.II), abl.sg. archiatro, = Gk. archiatros,-i (s.m.II): “court or official physician; of the Hellenistic and Roman Emperors; of communities, ‘archiatros populares (acc.pl.):’ generally, ‘responsible practitioner;’” (Liddell & Scott); Latin; “in the time of the emperors, the chief physician, who was at the same time physician in ordinary to the emperor (Lewis & Short) [> Gk. arch-, chief, principal, head + iatros, physician, healer];

“The physicians attached to the imperial household were under the direction of a chief styled archiater (ἀρχίατρος), or in pure Latin dominus medicorum. The name archiater was also applied to the dispensary-physicians who gave their services to the people (archiatri populares). See Goldhorn, De Archiatris Romanis (Leipzig, 1841).

Dominus medicorum (singular), “lord of the healers (physicians)” = Archiatros, chief physician.

Archiatri populares (plural), chief community physicians, the dispensary-physicians, who gave their services to the people; e.g. Pieter van Foreest: “was the physician of the city of Delft.”

Poliatrus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. poliatro, perhaps the archiatrus,-i (s.m.II) of a city, the official community physician (> Latin pol- [polis,-is (s.f.III), q.v.] + -iatros);

- Jоаппеs а Grenueld I.V., & Med. D. Poliatrus Lugd. Bat. (Mich.), Johann of Grenueld I.V., and [?] Lord Physician [Medicus Dominus] of the City of Leiden (Netherlands).

NOTE: Lugdunum Batavorum = Leiden, Netherlands.

Mentzel. Christianus Mentzelius Furstenwald. March. Philosophiae & Medicinae Doctor, Sereniss. Electoris Brandeburgici Consiliarius & Archiater edidit Indicem Nominum Plantarum Universalem multilinguem, cum Pugillo rariorum Plantarum & figuris aliquot in aes incisis. Berolini 1682. In fo.

Mentzel. Christian Mentzel (of) Furstenwalde. Marquess. Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine of the most serene Elector of Brandenburg, Counsellor and Court Physician (Archiater) published the Multilingual Universal Index of Plant names, with a Pugillus (i.e. selection) of rare plants, and with several figures engraved in copper. At Berlin 1682. In folio [sc. size].

NOTE: Christian Menzel (1622 – 1701)

- Nosoсоmii, quod Vitae appellant, Archiater (Mich.), chief physician of the hospital which they call “Vita” [life].

- Joannes Bauhinus, Caspari frater, Ducis Wirtemberg. Archiater (Ray), Joannes Bauhinus, brother of Caspar, chief (i.e. official) physician of the Duke [of Wirtemberg).

- [A Lichen: Lichenoides digitatum cinereum] Rich. Mead, Archiatrus, retulit mihi, omnigena se in praxi sua locupletissima tentasse medicamina, ad canis rabidi morsus symptomata praecavenda, sed irrito successu, huic vero herbae efficacem inesse vim antilyssam, si tempestive devoretur (Ray); Richard Mead, Court Physician, told me, he in his own practice has put to the test the most reliable medicines [remedies] of every kind, guarding against the symptoms for the bite of a rabid dog, but with an ineffectual outcome, but indeed for this reason the efficacy of the plant pertains to its [anti rabies power, if it be swallowed down early [i.e. at the proper time].