ἔργον

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• ϝέργον (wérgon) – Doric
• ϝάργον (wárgon) – Elean

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Hellenic *wérgon, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom. Cognates include Old English weorc (English work), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬆𐬨 (varəzəm), and Old Armenian գործ (gorc).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /ér.ɡon/ → /ˈer.ɣon/ → /ˈer.ɣon/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /ér.ɡon/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɛr.ɡon/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ɣon/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ɣon/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ɣon/

NounEdit

ἔργον • (érgon) n (genitive ἔργου); second declension

1. deed, doing, action
2. labour, work, task

InflectionEdit

Second declension of τὸ ἔργον; τοῦ ἔργου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔργον	τὼ ἔργω	τᾰ̀ ἔργᾰ
Genitive	τοῦ ἔργου	τοῖν ἔργοιν	τῶν ἔργων
Dative	τῷ ἔργῳ	τοῖν ἔργοιν	τοῖς ἔργοις
Accusative	τὸ ἔργον	τὼ ἔργω	τᾰ̀ ἔργᾰ
Vocative	ἔργον	ἔργω	ἔργᾰ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived termsEdit

• ᾰ̓εργός (aergós), ᾱ̓ργός (ārgós)
  • λήθᾱργος (lḗthārgos)
    • ληθᾱργῐ́ᾱ (lēthārgíā)
• ἐνεργής (energḗs)
  • ἐνέργειᾰ (enérgeia)
  • ἐνεργέω (energéō)
• ἐργᾰ́ζομαι (ergázomai)
  • ἐργᾰστήρῐον (ergastḗrion)
• ἐργᾰλεῖον (ergaleîon)
• ἐργᾰ́της (ergátēs)
• ἐργώδης (ergṓdēs)

Related termsEdit

• ἔρδω (érdō)
• ῥέζω (rhézō)

DescendantsEdit

• English: ergo-
• Greek: έργο (érgo)

ReferencesEdit

• ἔργον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἔργον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔργον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἔργον» 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
• «ἔργον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἔργον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2041”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • act idem, page 9.
  • action idem, page 9.
  • business idem, page 106.
  • charge idem, page 125.
  • commission idem, page 148.
  • concern idem, page 155.
  • deed idem, page 202.
  • duty idem, page 257.
  • effect idem, page 262.
  • errand idem, page 281.
  • fact idem, page 300.
  • function idem, page 349.
  • handiwork idem, page 383.
  • issue idem, page 461.
  • job idem, page 463.
  • mission idem, page 535.
  • office idem, page 571.
  • onus idem, page 574.
  • operation idem, page 576.
  • performance idem, page 607.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • proceeding idem, page 644.
  • product idem, page 645.
  • province idem, page 654.
  • responsibility idem, page 704.
  • result idem, page 706.
  • sequel idem, page 754.
  • service idem, page 755.
  • task idem, page 856.
  • toil idem, page 880.
  • transaction idem, page 888.
  • work idem, page 988.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill