ἐργᾰσ-ία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, Cretan dialect
ϝεργασία [
Refs]
work, business, [
Refs], etc; opposed to ἀργία, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] productive
labour, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] if no
work was done, [
Refs 4th c.BC+] with
infinitive, Latin
da operam ut, NT.Luke.12.58, compare [
Refs 6th c.BC+]
2)
function, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+].
II)
working at, making, manufacture, ἱματίων, ὑποδημάτων, etc, [
Refs 6th c.BC+];
making up of a prescription, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] taken in the part
wrought by thy
hands, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
production of pleasure, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] money-
making, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2)
working of a material, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; χαλκοῦ, ἐρίων, ξύλων, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: most commonly,
tillage of the ground, ἐ. γῆς, χώρας, [
Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐ. περὶ τὴν τροφήν
preparation (i.e. mastication and digestion) of food, [
Refs 4th c.BC+];
treatment of silphium, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.3) generally,
trade, business, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] engaged in
trade by sea, [
Refs 4th c.BC+] the banking
business, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+] dyers by
trade, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; especially of
a courtesan's trade, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of sexual
intercourse, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.3.b) ἐὰν ἐργασίαν εὕρῃ ὁ οἰκέτης if a slave brings in
earnings, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.4)
practising, exercising, [
Refs 6th c.BC+].
II.5)
work of art, production, τετράγωνος ἐ, of the Hermae, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] the fortification
works, [
Refs]
II.6) literary
execution, [
Refs 1st c.BC+];
elaboration of a topic, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.7)
production of a play, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
III)
guild or
company of workmen, ἡ ἐ. τῶν βαφέων[
Refs]; ἐριοπλυτῶν [
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