erga

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɾˈɡʌ/
  • Hyphenation: er‧ga

Noun

ergá f 

  1. 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

  1. except , but

Synonyms


Italian

Verb

erga

  1. inflection of ergere:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams


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

Preposition

ergā (+ accusative)

  1. (literally, of locality, pre-Classical and post-Classical only, rare) over against, opposite to
  2. (figuratively, of feelings and conduct) towards (a person or, more rarely, a thing)
    1. (of friendly feelings etc., used chiefly thus in Classical Latin) with regard to, towards, for
    2. (of unfriendly feelings, for the usual contrā or adversus) against
  3. (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
  4. (Medieval Latin) from
    Emō ergā aliquem.I buy from someone.
  5. (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)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of ergre

Portuguese

Verb

erga

  1. inflection of erguer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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