Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /arɣía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arɣía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aɾɣía/

Noun

ἀργία • ‎(argía) f ‎(genitive ἀργίας); first declension

1. lack of employment or use, idleness, laziness
   • Sophocles, Fragments 380
   • Hippocrates, Mochlicon 854
   • Euripides, Medea 297
   • Euripides, Herakles 592
   • Demosthenes 1308.19

     νόμος ἀργίας

   • Aristotle, Fragments 381

     γραφὴ ἀργίας

   1. (in a good sense) rest, leisure
      • Plato, Laws 761.A
   2. (in the plural) used to express the Latin fēriae
      • Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 4.8.33
      • Appian, Bella Civilia 1.56

Inflection

References

• ἀργία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀργία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀργία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀργία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• «ἀργία» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • apathy idem, page 33.
  • idleness idem, page 413.
  • inaction idem, page 425.
  • indolence idem, page 434.
  • inertness idem, page 436.
  • laziness idem, page 481.
  • leisure idem, page 485.
  • lethargy idem, page 486.
  • slackness idem, page 782.
  • sloth idem, page 785.
  • stagnation idem, page 809.
  • supineness idem, page 840.