κακοῦργος
Ancient Greek
adj-2nd
Definitions
- doing evil, mischievous, malicious
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek κακός (bad, evil) + Ancient Greek ἔργον (work, deed, activity), κακός (bad, evil) root from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (work, make, act, produce, makeVerb).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*werǵ-
Gloss
work, make, act, produce, makeVerb
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
- caco- English
- cacoepy English
- erg English
- ergon English
- irksomely English
- irksomeness English
- irky English
- kakistocracy English
- kakocracy English
- kakofoninen Finnish
- organicus Latin
- urgentem Latin
- Gewerk German
- Gewirk German
- Wirklichkeit German
- werkeln German
- wirklich German
- wirksam German
- caco- Italian
- organizzarsi Italian
- orgasme French
- эргоно́мика Russian
- ergometría Spanish, Castilian
- γεωργία Ancient Greek
- γεωργός Ancient Greek
- δίς Ancient Greek
- εὐεργέτης Ancient Greek
- κάκιστος Ancient Greek
- κακοήθης Ancient Greek
- κακομάζαλος Ancient Greek
- κακομήχανος Ancient Greek
- κακοφωνία Ancient Greek
- κακός Ancient Greek
- κακότης Ancient Greek
- κακόχυλος Ancient Greek
- κακῶς Ancient Greek
- πανοῦργος Ancient Greek
- συνήθης Ancient Greek
- χειρουργέω Ancient Greek
- ἀγαθοεργέω Ancient Greek
- ἐνέργεια Ancient Greek
- ἐνεργέω Ancient Greek
- ἐνεργός Ancient Greek
- ἐργάζομαι Ancient Greek
- ἐργάτης Ancient Greek
- ἐργαλεῖον Ancient Greek
- ἐργώδης Ancient Greek
- ἐόργη Ancient Greek
- ἑκάεργος Ancient Greek
- ἔργον Ancient Greek
- ὀργάω Ancient Greek
- ὀργασμός Ancient Greek
- ὄργανον Ancient Greek
- ὄργια Ancient Greek
- *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *worǵéh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wréǵ-ye- Proto-Indo-European
- *wr̥ǵyéti, *wérǵ-ye- Proto-Indo-European
- *wérǵom Proto-Indo-European
- *dagawerką Proto-Germanic
- *handuwerką Proto-Germanic
- *warkiz Proto-Germanic
- *werkōną Proto-Germanic
- *wirkijaną Proto-Germanic
- *wurkijaną Proto-Germanic
- ergonomji Polish
- weorcsum Old English
- eirgeanamaíocht Irish
- erg Catalan, Valencian
- έργο Greek (modern)
- αγαθοεργός Greek (modern)
- fercaigidir Old Irish
- алергия Bulgarian
- argëtoj Albanian
- *wurhtijō gmw-pro
- *wregeti Proto-Celtic
- *warȷ́- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- vergas Lithuanian
- *pati- Proto-Iranian
- *warj- Proto-Iranian
- *wérgon Proto-Hellenic
- *wärk- Proto-Tocharian