ἔργον

From Proto-Hellenic *wérgon, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom. Cognates include Old English weorc (English work), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬆𐬨 (var^əzəm) (Persian وَرز (varz)), and Old Armenian գործ (gorc).

• ϝέργον (wérgon) — Doric
• ϝάργον (wárgon) — Elean

ἔργον • (érgon) n (genitive ἔργου); second declension

1. work, labour, task
   1. work or deed of war; battle
   2. peaceful contest
   3. work of industry
      1. (agriculture) tillage; tilled land
      2. (weaving) woman's work; weaving
   4. deed, doing, action
2. thing or matter
3. (passive voice) that which is wrought or made; work
   1. result of work, profit or interest
4. guild or company of workmen

   Synonym: ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ (ergasíā)

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• ἔρδω (érdō)
• ῥέζω (rhézō)
• -ουργός (-ourgós)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ἔργον • (érgon)

1. first-person singular/third-person plural imperfect active indicative of ἔργω (érgō)

ἔργον • (érgon)

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of ἔργων (érgōn)

• “ἔργον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔργον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔργον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔργον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἔργον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἔργον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2041 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.
  • act idem, page 9.
  • action idem, page 9.
  • business idem, page 106.
  • charge idem, page 125.
  • commission idem, page 148.
  • concern idem, page 155.
  • deed idem, page 202.
  • duty idem, page 257.
  • effect idem, page 262.
  • errand idem, page 281.
  • fact idem, page 300.
  • function idem, page 349.
  • handiwork idem, page 383.
  • issue idem, page 461.
  • job idem, page 463.
  • mission idem, page 535.
  • office idem, page 571.
  • onus idem, page 574.
  • operation idem, page 576.
  • performance idem, page 607.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • proceeding idem, page 644.
  • product idem, page 645.
  • province idem, page 654.
  • responsibility idem, page 704.
  • result idem, page 706.
  • sequel idem, page 754.
  • service idem, page 755.
  • task idem, page 856.
  • toil idem, page 880.
  • transaction idem, page 888.
  • work idem, page 988.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN