erga
Italian
Verb
erga
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈer.ɡaː/, [ˈɛr.ɡaː]
Preposition
ergā (+ accusative)
- (literally, of locality, ante-Classical and post-classical only, rare) over against, opposite to
- (figuratively, of feelings and conduct) towards (a person or, more rarely, a thing)
- (of friendly feelings etc., used chiefly thus in Classical Latin) with regard to, towards, for
- (of unfriendly feelings, for the usual contrā or adversus) against
- (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
- (Medieval Latin) from
- (Medieval Latin) applying to, addressing (oneself) to
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, 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
- to be well-disposed towards..: benevolentiam habere 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 III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 854
Portuguese
Verb
erga
- First-person singular (eu) affirmative imperative of erguer
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of erguer
- First-person singular (eu) negative imperative of erguer
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of erguer
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of erguer
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of erguer
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