Ergon

Lucy Duhon, of Toledo, Ohio, suggested "alter ergo (from the Greek ergon, meaning 'work')." ❋ Unknown (2005)

Having bar ends on my bike again made me remember why I first installed them-extra hand positions and more leverage on climbs, but if you don't like the tree-grabbing feature that sometimes comes with them, you can get the same "ergon" omic grips sans, bar ends, in several different configurations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It comprises of two Greek words, laos meaning ‘people’ and ergon meaning ‘work’ Luke 1:23; Phil. ❋ Alex Tang (2010)

The name erg is derived from the Greek word ergon meaning "work". ❋ Unknown (2009)

He, along with Bela Schick, coined the word allergy (from the Greek allos meaning "other" and ergon meaning "reaction") to describe this hypersensitivity reaction. ❋ Steve Carper (2006)

His function (his ergon or characteristic activity), Aristotle says in Nicomachean Ethics I. 7, is rational activity, so when we perform rational activity well, we are good (virtuous) human beings and live well (we are happy). ❋ Homiak, Marcia (2007)

Liddell and Scott, sub.v. For the origin of the game compare curiously enough the first line of the first Elegy of Critias himself, who was a poet and political philosopher, as well as a politician: — “Kottabos ek Sikeles esti khthonos, euprepes ergon on skopon es latagon toxa kathistametha.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

Critias denies that calculation has an ergon, in the way that a house is the ergon of building or a garment of weaving, ❋ Parry, Richard (2007)

To mark the difference between these two kinds of technê, Alexander says that the task (ergon) of medicine is to try everything possible to achieve its goal (telos); but achieving its goal is not (totally) within the power of medicine. ❋ Parry, Richard (2007)

Most famous (and often misunderstood) is his distinction between language perceived as product (Werk) or ergon on the one hand and as activity (Tätigkeit) or energeia on the other (Humboldt 1836, LVII). ❋ Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt (2007)

E pollaplasion, eoe, to ergon e os nun zeteitai prostatteis. ❋ Unknown (2007)

While the ergon of a craft is its goal, the goal is frequently identified with a result separate from the activity of the craft. ❋ Parry, Richard (2007)

First of all, a craft has a function (ergon); this is what it characteristically does or what it characteristically accomplishes. ❋ Parry, Richard (2007)

Gorgias (503d-e) all craftsmen work not at random but look toward the goal of their craft (ergon) so that what each produces will have a certain form. ❋ Parry, Richard (2007)

Then he says that every epistêmê achieves well its goal (ergon) by looking at the mean and using that as a standard in its products. ❋ Parry, Richard (2007)

About work/werk: I seem to recall that the 'w' comes from the digamma in archaic Greek *wergon ergon. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Kai gar outos auton dialuthenton kai melachthenton kai tropon tina prosapenton ergon esti ten pechin kratesai, kai diakratepheises de deinas barutetas empoiei kai nosodeis apechias ... ❋ Unknown (2003)

Its correlative is “the thing done, enacted, the ergon or work” (Themis, Cambridge [1912], p. 328). ❋ MIRCEA ELIADE (1968)

- “Hey, we should go out on [Friday]!” - “[I can’t], I have [ergon].” ❋ Jbgyfiurwhjkbdsc (2023)