Ancient Greek

Adjective

ἀργός • ‎(argós) m ‎(feminine ἀργή, neuter ἀργόν); first/second declension

1. white, bright

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀργεννός ‎(argennós)
• ἀργιόδους ‎(argiódous)
• ἄργιλλος ‎(árgillos)
• ἄργυρος ‎(árguros)
  • ἀργύρεος ‎(argúreos)
  • ἀργύριον ‎(argúrion)
• πελαργός ‎(pelargós)
• πύγαργος ‎(púgargos)
• Ἀργαῖος ‎(Argaîos)
• Ἀργώ ‎(Argṓ)

Etymology 2

Contracted form of ἀεργός ‎(aergós), from ἀ- ‎(a-) +‎ ἔργον ‎(érgon), and hence has a long ᾱ ‎(ā).

Adjective

ᾱ̓ργός • ‎(ārgós) m ‎(feminine ᾱ̓ργή, neuter ᾱ̓ργόν); first/second declension

1. not working, idle
2. lazy, slow
3. fallow, fruitless
4. unwrought, undone, unpolished

Inflection

Derived terms

• λήθᾱργος ‎(lḗthārgos)

References

• ἀργός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press (first sense)
• ἀργός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press (second sense)
• ἀργός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀργός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀργός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀργός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀργός» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G692”, 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.
  • apathetic idem, page 33.
  • dormant idem, page 247.
  • fallow idem, page 304.
  • idle idem, page 413.
  • inactive idem, page 425.
  • indolent idem, page 434.
  • inert idem, page 436.
  • interest idem, page 450.
  • lazy idem, page 481.
  • leisure idem, page 485.
  • lethargic idem, page 486.
  • slack idem, page 782.
  • slothful idem, page 785.
  • supine idem, page 840.
  • unaccomplished idem, page 906.
  • unconsummated idem, page 911.
  • uncultivated idem, page 911.
  • undone idem, page 915.
  • unemployed idem, page 916.
  • unfulfilled idem, page 919.
  • unlaboured idem, page 923.
  • unoccupied idem, page 926.
  • unperformed idem, page 927.
  • unploughed idem, page 927.
  • unproductive idem, page 928.
  • untilled idem, page 934.
  • untouched idem, page 935.
• Gamkrelidze, Th. V.; Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 802-803