Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
erga. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
erga, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
erga in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
erga you have here. The definition of the word
erga will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
erga, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /erˈɡa/
- Hyphenation: er‧ga
Noun
ergá f
- outcry
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Galician
Etymology 1
Preposition
erga
- except , but
Synonyms
- (except for, excluding): agás, excepto, menos, quitado, quitando, sacado, sacando, salvo, tirante, exente, eigo, aliás, catar
Etymology 2
Verb
erga
- inflection of erguer:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Italian
Verb
erga
- inflection of ergere:
- first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Same as ergō, from ex- and Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”). Compare with the adverbial use of "ē regiōne" ("directly, against"), with the same elements.
Pronunciation
Preposition
ergā (+ accusative)
- (literally, of locality, pre-Classical and post-Classical only, rare) over against, opposite to
- (figuratively, of feelings and conduct) towards (a person or, more rarely, a thing)
- (of friendly feelings etc., used chiefly thus in Classical Latin) with regard to, towards, for
- (of unfriendly feelings, for the usual contrā or adversus) against
- (in post-Augustean authors, especially in Tacitus, in general of every kind of mental relation to a person or thing) to, towards, with respect to, with regard to, concerning, about
- (Medieval Latin) from
- (Medieval Latin) applying to, addressing (oneself) to
- quī aliquem ergā iūdicem accūsābit ― one who will accuse another applying to the judge
References
- “ergā”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “erga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- erga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ergā in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 598/1.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be well-disposed towards..: benevolentiam habere erga aliquem
- what a man merits at another's hands: meritum alicuius in or erga aliquem
- “erga”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 380/1, “erga”
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 854
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
erga (present tense ergar, past tense erga, past participle erga, passive infinitive ergast, present participle ergande, imperative erga/erg)
- (pre-2012) alternative form of ergre
Portuguese
Verb
erga
- inflection of erguer:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative