ἀργία

See also: αργία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀργός (argós, “not working”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.ɡí.aː/ → /arˈʝi.a/ → /arˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈʝi.a/

Noun

ἀργῐ́ᾱ • (argíā) f (genitive ἀργῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. lack of employment or use, idleness, laziness
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 380
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Mochlicon 854
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 297
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 592
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 1308.19:

     νόμος ἀργίας

     nómos argías

   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Fragments 381:

     γραφὴ ἀργίας

     graphḕ argías

   1. (in a good sense) rest, leisure
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 761A
   2. (in the plural) used to express the Latin fēriae
      • 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 4.8.33
      • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Bella Civilia 1.56

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀργῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀργῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀργῐ́ᾱ hē argíā	τὼ ἀργῐ́ᾱ tṑ argíā	αἱ ἀργῐ́αι hai argíai
Genitive	τῆς ἀργῐ́ᾱς tês argíās	τοῖν ἀργῐ́αιν toîn argíain	τῶν ἀργῐῶν tôn argiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀργῐ́ᾳ têi argíāi	τοῖν ἀργῐ́αιν toîn argíain	ταῖς ἀργῐ́αις taîs argíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀργῐ́ᾱν tḕn argíān	τὼ ἀργῐ́ᾱ tṑ argíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀργῐ́ᾱς tā̀s argíās
Vocative	ἀργῐ́ᾱ argíā	ἀργῐ́ᾱ argíā	ἀργῐ́αι argíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ἀργία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀργία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀργία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀργία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἀργία 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.
  • apathy idem, page 33.
  • idleness idem, page 413.
  • inaction idem, page 427.
  • indolence idem, page 434.
  • inertness idem, page 436.
  • laziness idem, page 481.
  • leisure idem, page 485.
  • lethargy idem, page 486.
  • slackness idem, page 782.
  • sloth idem, page 785.
  • stagnation idem, page 809.
  • supineness idem, page 840.