Erasistratus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρασίστρατος (Erasístratos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛ.raˈsɪs.tra.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.raˈs̬is.tra.tus] === Proper noun === Erasistratus m sg (genitive Erasistratī); second declension A famous physician of Alexandria and founder of a medical school ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Erasistratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Erasistratus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Erasistratus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “Erasistratus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray