"ἀργία" meaning in Ancient Greek

See ἀργία in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ar.ɡí.aː/, /arˈʝi.a/, /arˈʝi.a/, /ar.ɡí.aː/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /arˈɡi.a/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /arˈʝi.a/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /arˈʝi.a/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /arˈʝi.a/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From ἀργός (argós, “not working”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā). Etymology templates: {{af|grc|ἀργός|-ῐ́ᾱ|t1=not working}} ἀργός (argós, “not working”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Head templates: {{grc-noun|ἀργῐ́ᾱς|f|first|head=ἀργῐ́ᾱ}} ἀργῐ́ᾱ • (argĭ́ā) f (genitive ἀργῐ́ᾱς); first declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ἀργῐ́ᾱ|ᾱς}} Forms: ἀργῐ́ᾱ [canonical], argĭ́ā [romanization], ἀργῐ́ᾱς [genitive], Attic declension-1 [table-tags], ἡ ἀργῐ́ᾱ [nominative, singular], τὼ ἀργῐ́ᾱ [dual, nominative], αἱ ἀργῐ́αι [nominative, plural], τῆς ἀργῐ́ᾱς [genitive, singular], τοῖν ἀργῐ́αιν [dual, genitive], τῶν ἀργῐῶν [genitive, plural], τῇ ἀργῐ́ᾳ [dative, singular], τοῖν ἀργῐ́αιν [dative, dual], ταῖς ἀργῐ́αις [dative, plural], τὴν ἀργῐ́ᾱν [accusative, singular], τὼ ἀργῐ́ᾱ [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς ἀργῐ́ᾱς [accusative, plural], ἀργῐ́ᾱ [singular, vocative], ἀργῐ́ᾱ [dual, vocative], ἀργῐ́αι [plural, vocative]
  1. lack of employment or use, idleness, laziness
    (in a good sense) rest, leisure
    Sense id: en-ἀργία-grc-noun-wfKOAUMA
  2. lack of employment or use, idleness, laziness
    (in the plural) used to express the Latin fēriae
    Tags: in-plural
    Sense id: en-ἀργία-grc-noun-WADg4Bfa Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ία, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 23 54 23 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension: 23 54 23 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ία: 22 57 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 22 55 22 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 74 13
  3. lack of employment or use, idleness, laziness
    Sense id: en-ἀργία-grc-noun-8urcsat-
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (bcd5c38 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.