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ἀργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀργός ἀργόν

Structure: ἀργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. from a)ergo/s (부정 접두사 a, E)/rgw)

Sense

  1. not working the ground, living without labour, inactive, slothful, idle, lazy, idle at, free from
  2. lying fallow or untilled, unemployed, yielding no return
  3. not done, left undone, among things neglected

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ὁ οἶκοσ ἐν τῷ οἰκοδομεῖσθαι αὐτὸν λίθοισ ἀκροτόμοισ ἀργοῖσ ᾠκοδομήθη, καὶ σφῦρα καὶ πέλεκυσ καὶ πᾶν σκεῦοσ σιδηροῦν οὐκ ἠκούσθη ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ ἐν τῷ οἰκοδομεῖσθαι αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 6:11)
  • ἀμφοῖν δ’ ὑμῖν τούτοιν ἀφανισθέντοιν ἐθελήσει τίσ χαλκεύειν ἢ ναυπηγεῖν ἢ ῥάπτειν ἢ τροχοποιεῖν, ἢ σκυτοτομεῖν ἢ πλινθουργεῖν ἢ πλύνειν ἢ σκυλοδεψεῖν, ἢ γῆσ ἀρότροισ ῥήξασ δάπεδον καρπὸν Δηοῦσ θερίσασθαι, ἢν ἐξῇ ζῆν ἀργοῖσ ὑμῖν πάντων ἀμελοῦσιν; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme15)
  • ἥκιστ’ ἀλλ’ οὐράνιαι Νεφέλαι μεγάλαι θεαὶ ἀνδράσιν ἀργοῖσ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests3)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτωσ αἴτιόν ἐστι τοῦ παρούσησ ὀργῆσ κολάζειν, ὡσ τὸ παυσαμένησ μὴ κολάζειν ἀλλ’ ἐκλελύσθαι, καὶ ταὐτὸ πεπονθέναι τοῖσ ἀργοῖσ κωπηλάταισ, οἳ γαλήνησ ὁρμοῦσιν εἶτα κινδυνεύουσιν ἀνέμῳ πλέοντεσ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 11 18:1)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτωσ αἴτιόν ἐστι τοῦ παρούσησ ὀργῆσ κολάζειν, ὡσ τὸ παυσαμένησ μὴ κολάζειν ἀλλ’ ἐκλελύσθαι, καὶ ταὐτὸν πεπονθέναι τοῖσ ἀργοῖσ κωπηλάταισ, οἳ γαλήνησ ὁρμοῦσιν εἶτα κινδυνεύουσιν ἀνέμῳ πλέοντεσ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 11 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. not done

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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