λινουργός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λίνον (línon, “flax, linen”) +‎ -ουργός (-ourgós, “worker”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /li.nuːr.ɡós/ → /li.nurˈɣos/ → /li.nurˈɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /li.nuːr.ɡós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /li.nurˈɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /li.nurˈɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /li.nurˈɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /li.nurˈɣos/

Noun

λῐνουργός • (linourgós) m (genitive λῐνουργοῦ); second declension

1. linen-weaver
2. kind of freshwater bird, perhaps the glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
3. (mineralogy) kind of stone

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ λῐνουργός; τοῦ λῐνουργοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λῐνουργός ho linourgós	τὼ λῐνουργώ tṑ linourgṓ	οἱ λῐνουργοί hoi linourgoí
Genitive	τοῦ λῐνουργοῦ toû linourgoû	τοῖν λῐνουργοῖν toîn linourgoîn	τῶν λῐνουργῶν tôn linourgôn
Dative	τῷ λῐνουργῷ tôi linourgôi	τοῖν λῐνουργοῖν toîn linourgoîn	τοῖς λῐνουργοῖς toîs linourgoîs
Accusative	τὸν λῐνουργόν tòn linourgón	τὼ λῐνουργώ tṑ linourgṓ	τοὺς λῐνουργούς toùs linourgoús
Vocative	λῐνουργέ linourgé	λῐνουργώ linourgṓ	λῐνουργοί linourgoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λῐνουργεῖον (linourgeîon)
• λῐνουργέω (linourgéō)
• λῐνουργῐ́ᾱ (linourgíā)

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Linurgus

Further reading

• “λινουργός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λινουργός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette