Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

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

Noun

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

1. deed, doing, action
2. labour, work, task

Inflection

Derived terms

• ᾰ̓εργός ‎(aergós), ᾱ̓ργός ‎(ārgós)
  • λήθᾱργος ‎(lḗthārgos)
    • ληθᾱργῐ́ᾱ ‎(lēthārgíā)
• ἐνεργής ‎(energḗs)
  • ἐνέργειᾰ ‎(enérgeia)
  • ἐνεργέω ‎(energéō)
• ἐργᾰ́ζομαι ‎(ergázomai)
  • ἐργᾰστήρῐον ‎(ergastḗrion)
• ἐργᾰλεῖον ‎(ergaleîon)
• ἐργᾰ́της ‎(ergátēs)
• ἐργώδης ‎(ergṓdēs)

Related terms

• ἔρδω ‎(érdō)
• ῥέζω ‎(rhézō)

Descendants

• English: ergo-
• Greek: έργο ‎(érgo)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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 605.
  • 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 878.
  • 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