ἐργάτης

See also: εργάτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of ἔργον (érgon, “work”) +‎ -της (-tēs, masculine agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /er.ɡá.tɛːs/ → /erˈɣa.tis/ → /erˈɣa.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /er.ɡá.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /erˈɡa.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /erˈɣa.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /erˈɣa.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /erˈɣa.tis/

Noun

ἐργᾰ́της • (ergátēs) m (genitive ἐργᾰ́του); first declension

1. worker, workman, labourer
2. capstan, windlass, winch

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ἐργᾰ́της; τοῦ ἐργᾰ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐργᾰ́της ho ergátēs	τὼ ἐργᾰ́τᾱ tṑ ergátā	οἱ ἐργᾰ́ται hoi ergátai
Genitive	τοῦ ἐργᾰ́του toû ergátou	τοῖν ἐργᾰ́ταιν toîn ergátain	τῶν ἐργᾰτῶν tôn ergatôn
Dative	τῷ ἐργᾰ́τῃ tôi ergátēi	τοῖν ἐργᾰ́ταιν toîn ergátain	τοῖς ἐργᾰ́ταις toîs ergátais
Accusative	τὸν ἐργᾰ́την tòn ergátēn	τὼ ἐργᾰ́τᾱ tṑ ergátā	τοὺς ἐργᾰ́τᾱς toùs ergátās
Vocative	ἐργᾰ́τᾰ ergáta	ἐργᾰ́τᾱ ergátā	ἐργᾰ́ται ergátai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: εργάτης (ergátis)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: ارغات‎ (ırgat), ارغاد‎ (ırgad)
    • Turkish: ırgat
    • → Albanian: argat
    • → Armenian: ըրղաթ (ərłatʿ), ըռղաթ (əṙłatʿ)
    • → Aromanian: argat, argatu
    • → Bulgarian: арга́т (argát)
    • → Macedonian: аргат (argat)
    • → Romanian: argat
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: а̀ргат

      Latin script: àrgat

• → Latin: ergata
  • Spanish: argado

Further reading

• “ἐργάτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐργάτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐργάτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2040 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • author idem, page 53.
  • boor idem, page 89.
  • churl idem, page 132.
  • clown idem, page 140.
  • countryman idem, page 178.
  • cultivator idem, page 189.
  • doer idem, page 246.
  • farmer idem, page 307.
  • hind idem, page 400.
  • husbandman idem, page 412.
  • labourer idem, page 473.
  • peasant idem, page 601.
  • rustic idem, page 728.
  • workman idem, page 989.
  • yeoman idem, page 996.