ἐργάτης
See also: εργάτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + -της (-tēs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /er.ɡá.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɛrˈɡa.tes/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /erˈɣa.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /erˈɣa.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /erˈɣa.tis/
Noun
ἐργᾰ́της • (ergátēs) m (genitive ἐργᾰ́του); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ἐργᾰ́της ho ergátēs |
τὼ ἐργᾰ́τᾱ tṑ ergátā |
οἱ ἐργᾰ́ται hoi ergátai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἐργᾰ́του toû ergátou |
τοῖν ἐργᾰ́ταιν toîn ergátain |
τῶν ἐργᾰτῶν tôn ergatôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἐργᾰ́τῃ tôi ergátēi |
τοῖν ἐργᾰ́ταιν toîn ergátain |
τοῖς ἐργᾰ́ταις toîs ergátais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ἐργᾰ́την tòn ergátēn |
τὼ ἐργᾰ́τᾱ tṑ ergátā |
τοὺς ἐργᾰ́τᾱς toùs ergátās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐργᾰ́τᾰ ergáta |
ἐργᾰ́τᾱ ergátā |
ἐργᾰ́ται ergátai | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Greek: εργάτης (ergátis)
- Ottoman Turkish: ارغاد (ırgat)
Further reading
- ἐργάτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐργάτης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐργάτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2040 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.
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- countryman idem, page 178.
- cultivator idem, page 189.
- doer idem, page 246.
- farmer idem, page 307.
- hind idem, page 400.
- husbandman idem, page 412.
- labourer idem, page 473.
- peasant idem, page 601.
- rustic idem, page 728.
- workman idem, page 989.
- yeoman idem, page 996.
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