erga

Galician

Preposition

erga

1. except , but

Synonyms

• (except for, excluding): agás, excepto, menos, quitado, quitando, sacado, sacando, salvo, tirante, exente, eigo, aliás, catar

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Italian

Verb

erga

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of ergere
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of ergere
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of ergere
4. third-person singular imperative of ergere

Anagrams

• agre, egra, gare

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Latin

Etymology

Same as ergō, from ex- and Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”). Compare with the adverbial use of "ē regiōne" ("directly, against"), with the same elements.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ɡaː/, [ˈɛrɡäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ɡa/, [ˈɛrɡä]

Preposition

ergā (+ accusative)

1. (literally, of locality, pre-Classical and post-Classical only, rare) over against, opposite to
2. (figuratively, of feelings and conduct) towards (a person or, more rarely, a thing)
   1. (of friendly feelings etc., used chiefly thus in Classical Latin) with regard to, towards, for
   2. (of unfriendly feelings, for the usual contrā or adversus) against
3. (in post-Augustean authors, especially in Tacitus, in general of every kind of mental relation to a person or thing) to, towards, in respect to, with regard to, concerning, about
4. (Medieval Latin) from

   Emō ergā aliquem. ― I buy from someone.

5. (Medieval Latin) applying to, addressing (oneself) to

   Quī aliquem ergā iūdicem accūsābit. ― One who will accuse another applying to the judge.

References

• “ergā”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “erga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• erga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ergā in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 598/1.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be well-disposed towards..: benevolentiam habere erga aliquem
    
  • what a man merits at another's hands: meritum alicuius in or erga aliquem
    
• “erga”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 380/1, “erga”
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 854

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Portuguese

Verb

erga