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ἐργασίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐργασίᾱ ἐργασίας

Structure: ἐργασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)rga/zomai

Sense

  1. work, daily labor, business
  2. an act of working, making, building, a working at a material
  3. trade, commerce
  4. a practising, exercising
  5. a work of art, production

Declension

First 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

  • δεύτεροσ ὁ τοὺσ ἀρχὴν ἀναλαβόντασ, ἣν ὁ δῆμοσ οὐκ ἔδωκεν, ἀποθνῄσκειν κελεύων τρίτοσ δὲ μετὰ τούτουσ, ὃσ ἐβοήθησε τοῖσ πένησιν, ᾧ τάτελη τῶν πολιτῶν ἀφεῖλε καὶ προθυμότερον ἅπτεσθαι τῶν ἐργασιῶν ἐποίησεν ἅπαντασ. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 11 2:3)
  • εἰσὶ δὲ τεχνικώταται μὲν τῶν ἐργασιῶν ὅπου ἐλάχιστον τῆσ τύχησ, βαναυσόταται δ’ ἐν αἷσ τὰ σώματα λωβῶνται μάλιστα, δουλικώταται δὲ ὅπου τοῦ σώματοσ πλεῖσται χρήσεισ, ἀγεννέσταται δὲ ὅπου ἐλάχιστον προσδεῖ ἀρετῆσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 150:2)
  • καὶ πάντα που μεστὰ τἀνθρώπινα ζητούντων διδασκάλουσ τε καὶ ἄρχοντασ ἑαυτῶν τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων τῶν τε ἐργασιῶν, οἰομένων τε αὖ ἱκανῶν μὲν διδάσκειν, ἱκανῶν δὲ ἄρχειν εἶναι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 172:1)
  • ὀλίγοι δέ τινεσ λύτρα κατατιθέντεσ ἐξ ὁσίων καὶ δικαίων ἐργασιῶν συναχθέντα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 24 6:3)
  • εἰε͂ν δή, περὶ τῶν ἐν ἄστει καὶ κατὰ πόλιν πενήτων σκεπτέον ἂν εἰή τοῦ βίου καὶ τῶν ἐργασιῶν, πῶσ ἂν μάλιστα διάγοντεσ καὶ ποῖ̓ ἄττα μεταχειριζόμενοι δυνήσονται μὴ κακῶσ ζῆν μηδὲ φαυλότερον τῶν δανειζόντων ἐπὶ τόκοισ συχνοῖσ,εὖ μάλ’ ἐπισταμένων τὸν ἡμερῶν τε καὶ μηνῶν ἀριθμόν, καὶ τῶν συνοικίασ τε μεγάλασ καὶ ναῦσ κεκτημένων καὶ ἀνδράποδα πολλά· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 125:1)

Synonyms

  1. an act of working

  2. trade

  3. a practising

  4. a work of art

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