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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/
Noun
ἐργᾰ́της • (ergátēs) m (genitive ἐργᾰ́του); first declension
- worker, workman, labourer
- capstan, windlass, winch
Inflection
Descendants
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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