erga

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Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /erˈɡa/
  • Hyphenation: er‧ga

Noun

ergá f 

  1. 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

  1. except , but
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Verb

erga

  1. inflection of erguer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

erga

  1. inflection of ergere:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. 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)

  1. (literally, of locality, pre-Classical and post-Classical only, rare) over against, opposite to
  2. (figuratively, of feelings and conduct) towards (a person or, more rarely, a thing)
    1. (of friendly feelings etc., used chiefly thus in Classical Latin) with regard to, towards, for
    2. (of unfriendly feelings, for the usual contrā or adversus) against
  3. (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
  4. (Medieval Latin) from
    Emō ergā aliquem.
    I buy from someone.
  5. (Medieval Latin) applying to, addressing (oneself) to
    quī aliquem ergā iūdicem accūsābitone 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)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of ergre

Portuguese

Verb

erga

  1. inflection of erguer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative