Ancient Greek

Verb

ἐνεργέω • ‎(energéō)

1. to be in action or activity, to operate
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1411.B.26
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1101.A.15
   • 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 6.6.16
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Galatians 2.8
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 14.2
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 7.5
2. (transitive) to effect, execute
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 18.14.8
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 7.5.8
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Athenaeus Mechanicus, On Machines 14.2
   • 200 CE – 300 CE, Aristides Quintilianus, On Music 2.9
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.13.5
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 20.95
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 9.12.7
   • 26 CE – 121 CE, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.2
3. (euphemistically) to have sex
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Diocles of Carystus, Collected Works 141
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 4.61
   • Alciphron, Collected Works 3.55
   • Alciphron, Collected Works 1.39

Inflection

References

• ἐνεργέω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐνεργέω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἐνεργέω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἐνεργέω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1754”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979