χειρουργέω
Ancient Greek
verb
Definitions
- to work with my hands
- to do violence with my hands
- to make/craft/play by hand (of arts, music)
- to do by myself, without help
- to operate (of surgeons)
- to masturbate
Etymology
Compound from Ancient Greek χείρ (hand) + 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
- chiropractor English
- erg English
- ergon English
- chirurgia Latin
- chīrurgia Latin
- chīrurgicus Latin
- chīrūrgia Latin
- cirurgicālis Latin
- cīrurgia Latin
- хиральность Russian
- эргоно́мика Russian
- ergometría Spanish, Castilian
- Χειρίσοφος Ancient Greek
- γεωργός Ancient Greek
- δίς Ancient Greek
- εὐεργέτης Ancient Greek
- κακοῦργος Ancient Greek
- μεταχειρίζω Ancient Greek
- πανοῦργος Ancient Greek
- χέρνιψ Ancient Greek
- χείρ Ancient Greek
- χειράγρα Ancient Greek
- χειροδόσιον Ancient Greek
- χειρομύλη Ancient Greek
- χειρονόμος Ancient Greek
- χειρουργία Ancient Greek
- χειρουργός Ancient Greek
- χειρόνιπτρον Ancient Greek
- χειρόομαι Ancient Greek
- ἀγαθοεργέω Ancient Greek
- ἐνεργός Ancient Greek
- ἐργάζομαι Ancient Greek
- ἐργάτης Ancient Greek
- ἐργαλεῖον Ancient Greek
- ἐργώδης Ancient Greek
- ἑκάεργος Ancient Greek
- ἑκατόγχειρος Ancient Greek
- ἔργον Ancient Greek
- *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wérǵom Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰésōr Proto-Indo-European
- ergonomji Polish
- eirgeanamaíocht Irish
- erg Catalan, Valencian
- έργο Greek (modern)
- αγαθοεργός Greek (modern)
- χειρο- Greek (modern)
- алергия Bulgarian
- χέριον grc-koi
- *wérgon Proto-Hellenic