πανοῦργος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compound of πᾶν (pân, “everything”) +‎ ἔργον (érgon, “work”) +‎ -ος (-os, “noun of result or an abstract noun of action”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.nûːr.ɡos/ → /paˈnur.ɣos/ → /paˈnur.ɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.nûːr.ɡos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈnur.ɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈnur.ɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈnur.ɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈnur.ɣos/

Adjective

πᾰνοῦργος • (panoûrgos) m or f (neuter πᾰνοῦργον); second declension

1. (derogatory) (literally: "ready to do anything", but nearly always in a bad sense) knavish, roguish, villainous, treacherous, sly

Declension

Second declension of πᾰνοῦργος; πᾰνοῦργον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		πᾰνοῦργος panoûrgos	πᾰνοῦργον panoûrgon		πᾰνούργω panoúrgō	πᾰνούργω panoúrgō		πᾰνοῦργοι panoûrgoi	πᾰνοῦργᾰ panoûrga
Genitive		πᾰνούργου panoúrgou	πᾰνούργου panoúrgou		πᾰνούργοιν panoúrgoin	πᾰνούργοιν panoúrgoin		πᾰνούργων panoúrgōn	πᾰνούργων panoúrgōn
Dative		πᾰνούργῳ panoúrgōi	πᾰνούργῳ panoúrgōi		πᾰνούργοιν panoúrgoin	πᾰνούργοιν panoúrgoin		πᾰνούργοις panoúrgois	πᾰνούργοις panoúrgois
Accusative		πᾰνοῦργον panoûrgon	πᾰνοῦργον panoûrgon		πᾰνούργω panoúrgō	πᾰνούργω panoúrgō		πᾰνούργους panoúrgous	πᾰνοῦργᾰ panoûrga
Vocative		πᾰνοῦργε panoûrge	πᾰνοῦργον panoûrgon		πᾰνούργω panoúrgō	πᾰνούργω panoúrgō		πᾰνοῦργοι panoûrgoi	πᾰνοῦργᾰ panoûrga
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		πᾰνούργως panoúrgōs			πᾰνουργότερος panourgóteros			πᾰνουργότᾰτος panourgótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πᾰνουργέω (panourgéō)
• πᾰνούργημᾰ (panoúrgēma)
• πᾰνουργῐ́ᾱ (panourgíā)

 

Descendants

• → French: Panurge

Further reading

• “πανοῦργος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πανοῦργος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πανοῦργος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3835 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• πανοῦργος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • artful idem, page 42.
  • bad idem, page 58.
  • blackguard idem, page 81.
  • blackguardly idem, page 81.
  • caitiff idem, page 108.
  • crafty idem, page 181.
  • cunning idem, page 189.
  • deceitful idem, page 200.
  • dishonest idem, page 234.
  • evil idem, page 286.
  • fraudulent idem, page 343.
  • guileful idem, page 378.
  • ill idem, page 414.
  • knave idem, page 470.
  • knavish idem, page 470.
  • mischievous idem, page 533.
  • miscreant idem, page 533.
  • nefarious idem, page 554.
  • rascally idem, page 672.
  • reprobate idem, page 699.
  • roguish idem, page 720.
  • scoundrel idem, page 741.
  • shifty idem, page 766.
  • sinister idem, page 779.
  • sly idem, page 786.
  • unprincipled idem, page 928.
  • unscrupulous idem, page 931.
  • villain idem, page 952.
  • wicked idem, page 978.
  • wily idem, page 980.
  • wretch idem, page 993.
  • wrong idem, page 994.
  • wrong-doer idem, page 994.