erga
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɾˈɡʌ/
- 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
Preposition
erga
- except , but
Synonyms
- (except for, excluding): agás, excepto, menos, quitado, quitando, sacado, sacando, salvo, tirante, exente, eigo, aliás, catar
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) IPA(key): /ˈer.ɡaː/, [ˈɛrɡäː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /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, in 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
- to be well-disposed towards..: benevolentiam habere 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