# κατεργάζομαι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From κατα- (kata-, “against”) +‎ ἐργάζομαι (ergázomai, “to work, labor”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.ter.ɡáz.do.mai̯/ → /ka.terˈɣa.zo.mɛ/ → /ka.terˈɣa.zo.me/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ka.ter.ɡáz.do.mai̯/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ka.terˈɡa.zo.mɛ/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ka.terˈɣa.zo.mɛ/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ka.terˈɣa.zo.me/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ka.terˈɣa.zo.me/

### Verb

κᾰτεργάζομαι • (katergázomai)
* to effect by labor, to achieve, accomplish
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.24
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1022
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 57
** 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 247
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.65
** 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 2.31
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 2.2
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Peace 8
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 933
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.5.11
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.123
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.141
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.66
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1081
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 1.4
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Philon 9
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Hermotimus 5
** to earn or gain by labor
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.65
*** 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 1046
*** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 229
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1 66
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 473D
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.102
** (absolute) to achieve one's object, to be successful
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.78
** (with accusative of person) to make an end of, finish, kill
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.24
*** 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 888
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1094
*** to overpower, subdue, conquer
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.2
**** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 842
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.85
**** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Evagoras 59
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.100
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.111
**** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 526
**** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 3.1.3
*** to prevail upon
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.6
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.3.16
**** 50BC-50AD, Parthenius, Collected Works 13.1
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 21
**** 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 10.4.2
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.108
*** (with duplicate accusative) to do something to one
**** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On his Return 17
* to work up for use
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 501B.30
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 469A.31
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Breath 482B.16
** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 11.649
** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 17.430
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 714
** 100 CE – 200 CE, Longus, Collected Works 3.30
** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 5.13
** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 11.367
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.194
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 552A.24
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 10
** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 5.17.2
** 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 1.98
* to work at, practice
** 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 88C
* to level
** 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 11.3.4
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Esdras 4.4

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “κατεργάζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “κατεργάζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* κατεργάζομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* G2716 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek κατεργάζομαι.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.terˈɣa.zo.me/
* Hyphenation: κα‧τερ‧γά‧ζο‧μαι

### Verb

κατεργάζομαι • (katergázomai) deponent (past κατεργάστηκα/κατεργάσθηκα, ppp κατεργασμένος)
* (transitive) to process, treat, work, fashion (make, build or construct)
    κατεργάζομαι χαλκό ― katergázomai chalkó ― to treat copper
    κατεργάζομαι τυρί ― katergázomai tyrí ― to process cheese

#### Related terms

* κατεργασία f (katergasía)