ἔργον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *wérgon, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom. Cognates include Old English weorc (English work), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬆𐬨‎ (varəzəm), and Old Armenian գործ (gorc).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ér.ɡon/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɛr.ɡon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ɣon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ɣon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ɣon/

Noun

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

deed, doing, action
labour, work, task

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἔργον; τοῦ ἔργου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔργον tò érgon	τὼ ἔργω tṑ érgō	τᾰ̀ ἔργᾰ tà érga
Genitive	τοῦ ἔργου toû érgou	τοῖν ἔργοιν toîn érgoin	τῶν ἔργων tôn érgōn
Dative	τῷ ἔργῳ tôi érgōi	τοῖν ἔργοιν toîn érgoin	τοῖς ἔργοις toîs érgois
Accusative	τὸ ἔργον tò érgon	τὼ ἔργω tṑ érgō	τᾰ̀ ἔργᾰ tà érga
Vocative	ἔργον érgon	ἔργω érgō	ἔργᾰ érga
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ᾱ̓ργός (ārgós)
Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios)
γεωργός (geōrgós)
ἐνέργειᾰ (enérgeia)
ἐνεργέω (energéō)
ἐνεργής (energḗs)
ἐργᾰ́ζομαι (ergázomai)
ἐργᾰλεῖον (ergaleîon)
ἐργᾰστήρῐον (ergastḗrion)
ἐργᾰ́της (ergátēs)
ἐργώδης (ergṓdēs)
ληθᾱργῐ́ᾱ (lēthārgíā)
λήθᾱργος (lḗthārgos)

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 607.
- 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 880.
- 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

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