Etymology

From κατα- (kata-, “against”) +‎ ἐργάζομαι (ergázomai, “to work, labor”)Category:Ancient Greek terms prefixed with κατα-#ΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙ.

Pronunciation

Verb

κᾰτεργάζομαι • (kătergázomai)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Ancient Greek verbs#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Pages with entries#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙ

1. to effect by labor, to achieve, accomplish
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.24
   • c. 420 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1022
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 57
   • 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 247
   • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.65
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 2.31
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 2.2
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Peace 8
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 933
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.5.11
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.123
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.141
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.66
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1081
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 1.4
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Philon 9
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Hermotimus 5
   1. to earn or gain by labor
      • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.65
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 1046
      • 330 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 229
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1 66
      • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 473D
      • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.102
   2. (absolute) to achieve one's object, to be successful
      • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.78
   3. (with accusative of person) to make an end of, finish, kill
      • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.24
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 888
      • c. 450 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1094
      1. to overpower, subdue, conquer
         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.2
         • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 842
         • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.85
         • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Evagoras 59
         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.100
         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.111
         • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 526
         • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 3.1.3
      2. to prevail upon
         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.6
         • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.3.16
         • 50 BCE – 50 CE, Parthenius, Collected Works 13.1
         • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 21
         • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 10.4.2
         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.108
      3. (with duplicate accusative) to do something to one
         • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On his Return 17
2. to work up for use
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 501B.30
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 469A.31
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Breath 482B.16
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 11.649
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 17.430
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 714
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Longus, Collected Works 3.30
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 5.13
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 11.367
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.194
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 552A.24
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 10
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 5.17.2
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 1.98
3. to work at, practice
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 88C
4. to level
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 11.3.4
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Esdras 4.4

Further reading

• “κατεργάζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κατεργάζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κατεργάζομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2716 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Etymology

From Ancient GreekCategory:Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙ κατεργάζομαι.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.terˈɣa.zo.me/Category:Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙ
• Hyphenation: κα‧τερ‧γά‧ζο‧μαι

Verb

κατεργάζομαι • (katergázomai)Category:Greek lemmas#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Greek verbs#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Pages with entries#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙ deponent (past κατεργάστηκα/κατεργάσθηκα, ppp κατεργασμένος)Category:Greek deponent verbs

1. (transitiveCategory:Greek transitive verbs#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙ) to process, treat, work, fashion (make, build or construct)

   κατεργάζομαι χαλκό ― katergázomai chalkó ― to treat copperCategory:Greek terms with usage examples#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙ

   κατεργάζομαι τυρί ― katergázomai tyrí ― to process cheeseCategory:Greek terms with usage examples#ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΑΙ