πανοῦργος
Ancient Greek
adj-2nd
Definitions
- (pejorative) literally: "ready to do anything", but nearly always in a bad sense knavish, roguish, villainous, treacherous, sly
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek πᾶν (all, everything) + Ancient Greek ἔργον (work, deed, activity).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ἔργον
Gloss
work, deed, activity
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
働
Emoji
✂️ 🏗️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -urgy English
- Pantheon English
- erg English
- ergon English
- panopticon English
- pantechnicon English
- panax Latin
- эргоно́мика Russian
- ergometría Spanish, Castilian
- pan- Spanish, Castilian
- panteón Spanish, Castilian
- panóptico Spanish, Castilian
- γεωργός Ancient Greek
- δίς Ancient Greek
- εὐεργέτης Ancient Greek
- κακοῦργος Ancient Greek
- πᾶν Ancient Greek
- χειρουργέω Ancient Greek
- ἀγαθοεργέω Ancient Greek
- ἐνεργός Ancient Greek
- ἐργάζομαι Ancient Greek
- ἐργάτης Ancient Greek
- ἐργαλεῖον Ancient Greek
- ἐργώδης Ancient Greek
- ἑκάεργος Ancient Greek
- ἔργον Ancient Greek
- *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wérǵom Proto-Indo-European
- pan- Norwegian Bokmål
- panteão Portuguese
- panóptico Portuguese
- ergonomji Polish
- panteon Polish
- pan- Norwegian Nynorsk
- eirgeanamaíocht Irish
- erg Catalan, Valencian
- έργο Greek (modern)
- αγαθοεργός Greek (modern)
- алергия Bulgarian
- *wérgon Proto-Hellenic