# erga
## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /erˈɡa/ [ʔɛɾˈɡʌ]
* Hyphenation: er‧ga

### Noun

ergá f
* outcry

#### References

* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Galician
### Etymology 1
#### Preposition

erga
* except , but

##### Synonyms

* (except for, excluding): agás, excepto, menos, quitado, quitando, sacado, sacando, salvo, tirante, exente, eigo, aliás, catar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

erga
* inflection of erguer:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Verb

erga
* inflection of ergere:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* Rega, agre, egra, gare

## Latin
### Etymology

Same as ergō, from ex- and Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”). Compare with the adverbial use of "ē regiōne" ("directly, against"), with the same elements.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈer.ɡaː/, [ˈɛrɡäː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈer.ɡa/, [ˈɛrɡä]

### Preposition

ergā (+ accusative)
* (literally, of locality, pre-Classical and post-Classical only, rare) over against, opposite to
* (figuratively, of feelings and conduct) towards (a person or, more rarely, a thing)
** (of friendly feelings etc., used chiefly thus in Classical Latin) with regard to, towards, for
** (of unfriendly feelings, for the usual contrā or adversus) against
* (in post-Augustean authors, especially in Tacitus, in general of every kind of mental relation to a person or thing) to, towards, with respect to, with regard to, concerning, about
* (Medieval Latin) from
    Emō ergā aliquem.I buy from someone.
* (Medieval Latin) applying to, addressing (oneself) to
    quī aliquem ergā iūdicem accūsābit ― one who will accuse another applying to the judge

### References

* “ergā”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “erga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* erga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* ergā in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 598/1.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to be well-disposed towards..: benevolentiam habere erga aliquem what a man merits at another's hands: meritum alicuius in or erga aliquem
* “erga”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 380/1, “erga”
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 854

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

erga (present tense ergar, past tense erga, past participle erga, passive infinitive ergast, present participle ergande, imperative erga/erg)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of ergre

## Portuguese
### Verb

erga
* inflection of erguer:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative