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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐργάζομαι (ergázomai, “work”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /er.ɡa.sí.aː/ → /er.ɣaˈsi.a/ → /er.ɣaˈsi.a/
Noun
ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ • (ergasíā) f (genitive ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- work, daily labor, business
- an act of working, making, building
- a working at a material
- trade, commerce
- a practising, exercising
- a work of art, production
- a guild, company
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἐργασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐργασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐργασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἐργασία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2039 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.
- art idem, page 42.
- avocation idem, page 55.
- business idem, page 106.
- construction idem, page 165.
- cultivation idem, page 189.
- employment idem, page 269.
- engagement idem, page 274.
- farming idem, page 307.
- husbandry idem, page 412.
- job idem, page 463.
- making idem, page 509.
- manufacture idem, page 513.
- occupation idem, page 568.
- production idem, page 645.
- tillage idem, page 875.
- trade idem, page 885.
- work idem, page 988.
- working idem, page 989.