"δημιουργός" meaning in Ancient Greek

See δημιουργός in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /dɛː.mi.uːr.ɡós/, /ði.mi.urˈɣos/, /ði.mi.urˈɣos/, /dɛː.mi.uːr.ɡós/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /de̝.mi.urˈɡos/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ði.mi.urˈɣos/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ði.mi.urˈɣos/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ði.mi.urˈɣos/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From an earlier unattested *δημιο-ϝεργός (*dēmio-wergós), from a univerbation of δήμια ἔργᾰ (dḗmia érgă). By surface analysis, δήμῐος (dḗmĭos, “public”) + ουργός (ourgós, “worker”); for the second element, compare ἔργον (érgon, “labor, work”). Etymology templates: {{univerbation|grc|δήμια ἔργᾰ|nocap=1}} univerbation of δήμια ἔργᾰ (dḗmia érgă), {{surf|grc|δήμῐος|ουργός|t1=public|t2=worker}} By surface analysis, δήμῐος (dḗmĭos, “public”) + ουργός (ourgós, “worker”) Head templates: {{grc-noun|δημῐουργός|δημῐουργοῦ|m|second}} δημῐουργός • (dēmĭourgós) m (genitive δημῐουργοῦ); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|δημῐουργός|ου|form=M}} Forms: δημῐουργός [canonical], dēmĭourgós [romanization], δημῐουργοῦ [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ὁ δημῐουργός [nominative, singular], τὼ δημῐουργώ [dual, nominative], οἱ δημῐουργοί [nominative, plural], τοῦ δημῐουργοῦ [genitive, singular], τοῖν δημῐουργοῖν [dual, genitive], τῶν δημῐουργῶν [genitive, plural], τῷ δημῐουργῷ [dative, singular], τοῖν δημῐουργοῖν [dative, dual], τοῖς δημῐουργοῖς [dative, plural], τὸν δημῐουργόν [accusative, singular], τὼ δημῐουργώ [accusative, dual], τοὺς δημῐουργούς [accusative, plural], δημῐουργέ [singular, vocative], δημῐουργώ [dual, vocative], δημῐουργοί [plural, vocative], δημῐοεργός [alternative]
  1. one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman
    Sense id: en-δημιουργός-grc-noun-~i8dUunm
  2. one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman
    the maker of the world
    Sense id: en-δημιουργός-grc-noun-tlUyAkFN Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension, Ancient Greek univerbations, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 19 76 5 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension: 27 56 17 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek univerbations: 22 69 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 16 70 3 2 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 76 2 1 5
  3. (in some Peloponnesian states) magistrate
    Sense id: en-δημιουργός-grc-noun-HNrdZ2JD
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: δημῐουργῐκός (dēmĭourgĭkós), ἐπιδημιουργοί (epidēmiourgoí)
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  "derived": [
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "dēmĭourgĭkós",
      "word": "δημῐουργῐκός"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "epidēmiourgoí",
      "word": "ἐπιδημιουργοί"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "δήμια ἔργᾰ",
        "nocap": "1"
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      "name": "univerbation"
    },
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      "expansion": "By surface analysis, δήμῐος (dḗmĭos, “public”) + ουργός (ourgós, “worker”)",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From an earlier unattested *δημιο-ϝεργός (*dēmio-wergós), from a univerbation of δήμια ἔργᾰ (dḗmia érgă). By surface analysis, δήμῐος (dḗmĭos, “public”) + ουργός (ourgós, “worker”); for the second element, compare ἔργον (érgon, “labor, work”).",
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "δημῐουργοῦ",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "form": "Second declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ δημῐουργός",
      "roman": "ho dēmĭourgós",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "singular"
      ]
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      "form": "τὼ δημῐουργώ",
      "roman": "tṑ dēmĭourgṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
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      ]
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      "form": "οἱ δημῐουργοί",
      "roman": "hoi dēmĭourgoí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ δημῐουργοῦ",
      "roman": "toû dēmĭourgoû",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν δημῐουργοῖν",
      "roman": "toîn dēmĭourgoîn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "τῶν δημῐουργῶν",
      "roman": "tôn dēmĭourgôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ δημῐουργῷ",
      "roman": "tôi dēmĭourgôi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν δημῐουργοῖν",
      "roman": "toîn dēmĭourgoîn",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "dual"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "τοῖς δημῐουργοῖς",
      "roman": "toîs dēmĭourgoîs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν δημῐουργόν",
      "roman": "tòn dēmĭourgón",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ δημῐουργώ",
      "roman": "tṑ dēmĭourgṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς δημῐουργούς",
      "roman": "toùs dēmĭourgoús",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "δημῐουργέ",
      "roman": "dēmĭourgé",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "δημῐουργώ",
      "roman": "dēmĭourgṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "δημῐουργοί",
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "δημῐοεργός",
      "roman": "dēmĭoergós",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "δημῐουργός",
        "2": "δημῐουργοῦ",
        "3": "m",
        "4": "second"
      },
      "expansion": "δημῐουργός • (dēmĭourgós) m (genitive δημῐουργοῦ); second declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "δημῐουργός",
        "2": "ου",
        "form": "M"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "but his dark ally the divine night was almost over, and dawn the craftsman was quickly coming / Note: dawn is called ‘the craftsman’ because it wakes craftsmen and other people and makes them turn to their crafts.",
          "ref": "7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes",
          "roman": "orphnaíē d’ epíkouros epaúeto daimoníē núx, hē pleíōn, tákha d’ órthros egígneto dēmioergós",
          "text": "ὀρφναίη δ’ ἐπίκουρος ἐπαύετο δαιμονίη νύξ, ἡ πλείων, τάχα δ’ ὄρθρος ἐγίγνετο δημιοεργός"
        },
        {
          "english": "Didn't the Fury forge this sword and Hades, the cruel craftsman, that [belt]?",
          "ref": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 992",
          "roman": "âr’ ouk Erinùs toût’ ekhálkeusen xíphos kakeînon Háidēs, dēmiourgòs ágrios?",
          "text": "ἆρ’ οὐκ Ἐρινὺς τοῦτ’ ἐχάλκευσεν ξίφος κἀκεῖνον Ἅιδης, δημιουργὸς ἄγριος?"
        },
        {
          "english": "For it will confer a big help to the sick anyway and to practitioners in this field.",
          "ref": "circa 1st century AD, Hippocrates of Kos, Precepts 2, (author unknown)",
          "roman": "kárta gàr megálēn ōphelíēn peripoiḗsei toîs ge noséousi kaì toîs toútōn dēmiourgoîs.",
          "text": "κάρτα γὰρ μεγάλην ὠφελίην περιποιήσει τοῖς γε νοσέουσι καὶ τοῖς τούτων δημιουργοῖς."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman"
      ],
      "id": "en-δημιουργός-grc-noun-~i8dUunm",
      "links": [
        [
          "workman",
          "workman"
        ],
        [
          "handicraftsman",
          "handicraftsman"
        ]
      ]
    },
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          "_dis": "19 76 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 56 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 69 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek univerbations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 70 3 2 9",
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          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 76 2 1 5",
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman",
        "the maker of the world"
      ],
      "id": "en-δημιουργός-grc-noun-tlUyAkFN",
      "links": [
        [
          "workman",
          "workman"
        ],
        [
          "handicraftsman",
          "handicraftsman"
        ],
        [
          "maker",
          "maker"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "magistrate"
      ],
      "id": "en-δημιουργός-grc-noun-HNrdZ2JD",
      "links": [
        [
          "magistrate",
          "magistrate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in some Peloponnesian states) magistrate"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in some Peloponnesian states"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɛː.mi.uːr.ɡós/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɛː.mi.uːr.ɡós/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/de̝.mi.urˈɡos/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "δημιουργός"
}
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    "Ancient Greek compound terms",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek oxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek second-declension nouns",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek univerbations",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "el:Gnosticism"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "dēmĭourgĭkós",
      "word": "δημῐουργῐκός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "epidēmiourgoí",
      "word": "ἐπιδημιουργοί"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "grc",
        "2": "δήμια ἔργᾰ",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
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      "name": "univerbation"
    },
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        "t2": "worker"
      },
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      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "δημῐουργός",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dēmĭourgós",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "δημῐουργοῦ",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-2",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "inflection-template"
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    },
    {
      "form": "Second declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ δημῐουργός",
      "roman": "ho dēmĭourgós",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ δημῐουργώ",
      "roman": "tṑ dēmĭourgṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ δημῐουργοί",
      "roman": "hoi dēmĭourgoí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ δημῐουργοῦ",
      "roman": "toû dēmĭourgoû",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν δημῐουργοῖν",
      "roman": "toîn dēmĭourgoîn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν δημῐουργῶν",
      "roman": "tôn dēmĭourgôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ δημῐουργῷ",
      "roman": "tôi dēmĭourgôi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν δημῐουργοῖν",
      "roman": "toîn dēmĭourgoîn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς δημῐουργοῖς",
      "roman": "toîs dēmĭourgoîs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν δημῐουργόν",
      "roman": "tòn dēmĭourgón",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ δημῐουργώ",
      "roman": "tṑ dēmĭourgṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς δημῐουργούς",
      "roman": "toùs dēmĭourgoús",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "δημῐουργέ",
      "roman": "dēmĭourgé",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "δημῐουργώ",
      "roman": "dēmĭourgṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "δημῐουργοί",
      "roman": "dēmĭourgoí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "δημῐοεργός",
      "roman": "dēmĭoergós",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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    {
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        "1": "δημῐουργός",
        "2": "δημῐουργοῦ",
        "3": "m",
        "4": "second"
      },
      "expansion": "δημῐουργός • (dēmĭourgós) m (genitive δημῐουργοῦ); second declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
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        "1": "δημῐουργός",
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  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "but his dark ally the divine night was almost over, and dawn the craftsman was quickly coming / Note: dawn is called ‘the craftsman’ because it wakes craftsmen and other people and makes them turn to their crafts.",
          "ref": "7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes",
          "roman": "orphnaíē d’ epíkouros epaúeto daimoníē núx, hē pleíōn, tákha d’ órthros egígneto dēmioergós",
          "text": "ὀρφναίη δ’ ἐπίκουρος ἐπαύετο δαιμονίη νύξ, ἡ πλείων, τάχα δ’ ὄρθρος ἐγίγνετο δημιοεργός"
        },
        {
          "english": "Didn't the Fury forge this sword and Hades, the cruel craftsman, that [belt]?",
          "ref": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 992",
          "roman": "âr’ ouk Erinùs toût’ ekhálkeusen xíphos kakeînon Háidēs, dēmiourgòs ágrios?",
          "text": "ἆρ’ οὐκ Ἐρινὺς τοῦτ’ ἐχάλκευσεν ξίφος κἀκεῖνον Ἅιδης, δημιουργὸς ἄγριος?"
        },
        {
          "english": "For it will confer a big help to the sick anyway and to practitioners in this field.",
          "ref": "circa 1st century AD, Hippocrates of Kos, Precepts 2, (author unknown)",
          "roman": "kárta gàr megálēn ōphelíēn peripoiḗsei toîs ge noséousi kaì toîs toútōn dēmiourgoîs.",
          "text": "κάρτα γὰρ μεγάλην ὠφελίην περιποιήσει τοῖς γε νοσέουσι καὶ τοῖς τούτων δημιουργοῖς."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "workman",
          "workman"
        ],
        [
          "handicraftsman",
          "handicraftsman"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman",
        "the maker of the world"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "workman",
          "workman"
        ],
        [
          "handicraftsman",
          "handicraftsman"
        ],
        [
          "maker",
          "maker"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "magistrate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "magistrate",
          "magistrate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in some Peloponnesian states) magistrate"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in some Peloponnesian states"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɛː.mi.uːr.ɡós/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɛː.mi.uːr.ɡós/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/de̝.mi.urˈɡos/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ði.mi.urˈɣos/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "δημιουργός"
}

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