ergon

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon). Doublet of erg and work. In philosophy, the word is loaned in its capacity as a technical term in Aristotelianism, in English usage following Alexander Grant, The Ethics of Aristotle (1857). In classical thermodynamics, the term is coined as translating German Werk. Rudolf Clausius (1864) made a technical distinction between Werk and Arbeit, both translating to English "work", and suggested Ergon for the purposes of the translation of his terminology into other modern languages. === Noun === ergon (uncountable) (physics) Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent. (Classical philosophy) A task or function of a creature. 16 March 1874, Punch Magazine, p. 212 "O where is that humming stuff now / With Irish 'vis' and 'vir' gone? / We haven't brain enough now / For Aristotle's ergon!" ==== Derived terms ==== ergal ergonal === Anagrams === Egnor, Goren, Groen, Negro, Norge, Ogren, Rengo, Rogen, genro, goner, grone, negro, ornge, reong