Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐργασίη ‎(ergasíē) (Ionic)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /erɣasía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /erɣasía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eɾɣasía/

Noun

ἐργασίᾱ • ‎(ergasíā) f ‎(genitive ἐργασίας); 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

Descendants

• Old Armenian: արգասիք ‎(argasikʿ)

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’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.
  • 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.
• LSJ 8th edition