ἐργασία

See also: εργασία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐργᾰσῐ́η (ergăsĭ́ē) — Ionic
• ϝεργᾰσῐ́α (wergăsĭ́a) — Cretan
• ϝεργᾰἵα (wergăhía) — Laconian

Etymology

From ἐργάζομαι (ergázomai, “work”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /er.ɡa.sí.aː/ → /er.ɣaˈsi.a/ → /er.ɣaˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /er.ɡa.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /er.ɡaˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /er.ɣaˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /er.ɣaˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /er.ɣaˈsi.a/

Noun

ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ • (ergăsĭ́ā) f (genitive ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. work, daily labor, business
2. an act of working, making, building
   1. a working at a material
   2. trade, commerce
   3. a practising, exercising
   4. a work of art, production
3. a guild, company

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ hē ergăsĭ́ā	τὼ ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ ergăsĭ́ā	αἱ ἐργᾰσῐ́αι hai ergăsĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱς tês ergăsĭ́ās	τοῖν ἐργᾰσῐ́αιν toîn ergăsĭ́ain	τῶν ἐργᾰσῐῶν tôn ergăsĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾳ têi ergăsĭ́āi	τοῖν ἐργᾰσῐ́αιν toîn ergăsĭ́ain	ταῖς ἐργᾰσῐ́αις taîs ergăsĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱν tḕn ergăsĭ́ān	τὼ ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ ergăsĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ergăsĭ́ās
Vocative	ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ ergăsĭ́ā	ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ ergăsĭ́ā	ἐργᾰσῐ́αι ergăsĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Old Armenian: արգասիք (argasikʻ)

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^[1], 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.