δημιουργός
See also: Δημιουργός
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- δημῐοεργός (dēmioergós) — Epic
Etymology edit
From δήμῐος (dḗmios, “public”) + -ουργός (-ourgós, “worker”) (for the second element, compare ἔργον (érgon, “labor, work”)).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dɛː.mi.uːr.ɡós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /de̝.mi.urˈɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ði.mi.urˈɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ði.mi.urˈɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ði.mi.urˈɣos/
Noun edit
δημῐουργός • (dēmiourgós) m (genitive δημῐουργοῦ); second declension
- one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman
- 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes :
- ὀρφναίη δ’ ἐπίκουρος ἐπαύετο δαιμονίη νύξ, ἡ πλείων, τάχα δ’ ὄρθρος ἐγίγνετο δημιοεργός
- orphnaíē d’ epíkouros epaúeto daimoníē núx, hē pleíōn, tákha d’ órthros egígneto dēmioergós
- but his dark ally the divine night was almost over, and dawn the craftsman was quickly coming / Note: dawn is called ‘the craftsman’ because it wakes craftsmen and other people and makes them turn to their crafts.
- ὀρφναίη δ’ ἐπίκουρος ἐπαύετο δαιμονίη νύξ, ἡ πλείων, τάχα δ’ ὄρθρος ἐγίγνετο δημιοεργός
- the maker of the world
- (in some Peloponnesian states) magistrate
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ δημῐουργός ho dēmiourgós |
τὼ δημῐουργώ tṑ dēmiourgṓ |
οἱ δημῐουργοί hoi dēmiourgoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ δημῐουργοῦ toû dēmiourgoû |
τοῖν δημῐουργοῖν toîn dēmiourgoîn |
τῶν δημῐουργῶν tôn dēmiourgôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ δημῐουργῷ tôi dēmiourgôi |
τοῖν δημῐουργοῖν toîn dēmiourgoîn |
τοῖς δημῐουργοῖς toîs dēmiourgoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν δημῐουργόν tòn dēmiourgón |
τὼ δημῐουργώ tṑ dēmiourgṓ |
τοὺς δημῐουργούς toùs dēmiourgoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | δημῐουργέ dēmiourgé |
δημῐουργώ dēmiourgṓ |
δημῐουργοί dēmiourgoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- δημῐουργῐκός (dēmiourgikós)
- ἐπιδημιουργοί (epidēmiourgoí)
Further reading edit
- “δημιουργός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- δημιουργός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δημιουργός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Greek edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δημιουργός (dēmiourgós, “worker for the common good”). Synchronically analysable as being from stem δημι-, from δῆμος (dêmos) + -ουργός (-ourgós), from the root of έργο (érgo).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
δημιουργός • (dimiourgós) m or f (plural δημιουργοί)
Declension edit
declension of δημιουργός
case \ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | δημιουργός • | δημιουργοί • |
genitive | δημιουργού • | δημιουργών • |
accusative | δημιουργό • | δημιουργούς • |
vocative | δημιουργέ • | δημιουργοί • |
Related terms edit
- αδημιούργητος (adimioúrgitos, “not created”)
- αναδημιουργία f (anadimiourgía, “recreation”)
- αναδημιουργικός (anadimiourgikós, “recreative”)
- αναδημιουργώ (anadimiourgó, “recreate”)
- αυτοδημιούργητος (aftodimioúrgitos, “self-created”)
- αυτοδημιουργούμαι (aftodimiourgoúmai, “self-create”)
- δημιούργημα n (dimioúrgima, “creation”)
- δημιουργία f (dimiourgía, “creation”)
- Δημιουργία f (Dimiourgía, “the Creation”)
- δημιουργικός (dimiourgikós, “creative”)
- δημιουργικότητα f (dimiourgikótita, “creativity”)
- δημιουργημένος (dimiourgiménos, “created, successful”, participle)
- δημιουργικά (dimiourgiká, “creatively”)
- δημιουργικώς (dimiourgikós, “creatively”)
- δημιουργώ (dimiourgó, “create”)
- and see: δήμος m (dímos) & έργο n (érgo, “the work”)