# ἐργάζομαι
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ϝεργάδδομαι (wergáddomai) — Laconian, Cretan

### Etymology

From ἔργον (érgon, “work”) +‎ -άζω (-ázō).

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

ἐργάζομαι • (ergázomai)
* to work, labour
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 2.12
** 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 148
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 616b35
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus 31
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.124
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 151
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 299
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.469
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.272
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 563
** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 5.12.7
** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 6.18.11
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.72
* to work at, make
** 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Various History 3.1
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 880
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 627a6
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.72
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.422
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.46
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 5.1
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 431c
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 91d
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods 11.2
** 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, The Life of Hippocrates 11
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.76
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.6
* to do, perform
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1121b33
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 382
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.733
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.321
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.210
** 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 16:10
** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 522d
** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 213d
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 267
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 347
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 7.20
* (with double accusative) to do something to someone; esp. do someone ill
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 787
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1350
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.26
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.79
** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 53a
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 244b
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1206
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1374
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 786
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 928
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1172
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.137
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.52
* to work a material
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Pantaenetus 28
** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.46
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.17
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 440
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.435
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.11
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.3.7
* to earn by working
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 144
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 840
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.24
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 43
** 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 282d
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.8.2
* to work at, practice
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against the Sophists 6
** New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 10:35
** 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 7:23
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 60e
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 374a
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 1.7
* to cause
** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.87
** 390 BCE – 322 BCE, Hyperides, In Defence of Euxenippus 35

#### Derived terms

* ἀνεργάζομαι (anergázomai)
* ἀντεργάζομαι (antergázomai)
* ἀπεργάζομαι (apergázomai)
* διεργάζομαι (diergázomai)
* ἐνεργάζομαι (energázomai)
* ἐξεργάζομαι (exergázomai)
* ἐπεργάζομαι (epergázomai)
* κατεργάζομαι (katergázomai)
* περιεργάζομαι (periergázomai)
* προεργάζομαι (proergázomai)
* προσεργάζομαι (prosergázomai)
* συνεργάζομαι (sunergázomai)
* ὑπεργάζομαι (hupergázomai)

#### Related terms

* ἀνέργαστος (anérgastos)
* ἐργασία (ergasía)
* ἐργάσιμος (ergásimos)
* ἔργασις (érgasis)
* ἐργαστέον (ergastéon)
* ἐργαστήρ (ergastḗr)
* ἐργαστήριον (ergastḗrion)
* ἐργαστής (ergastḗs)
* ἐργαστικός (ergastikós)
* ἔργαστρα (érgastra)
* ἐργαστρίς (ergastrís)

#### Descendants

* Greek: εργάζομαι (ergázomai, “to work”)

### References

* “ἐργάζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἐργάζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἐργάζομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἐργάζομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἐργάζομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ἐργάζομαι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G2038 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible