ἐργασία

See also: εργασία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐργᾰσῐ́η (ergasíē) — Ionic
• ϝεργᾰσῐ́α (wergasía) — Cretan
• ϝεργᾰἵα (wergahía) — Laconian

Etymology

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

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 • (ergasíā) 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 ergasíā	τὼ ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ ergasíā	αἱ ἐργᾰσῐ́αι hai ergasíai
Genitive	τῆς ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱς tês ergasíās	τοῖν ἐργᾰσῐ́αιν toîn ergasíain	τῶν ἐργᾰσῐῶν tôn ergasiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾳ têi ergasíāi	τοῖν ἐργᾰσῐ́αιν toîn ergasíain	ταῖς ἐργᾰσῐ́αις taîs ergasíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱν tḕn ergasíān	τὼ ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ ergasíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ergasíās
Vocative	ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ ergasíā	ἐργᾰσῐ́ᾱ ergasíā	ἐργᾰσῐ́αι ergasíai
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.