ἀργία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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, 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.