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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to a language, such as Georgian, in which the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb is expressed by one grammatical case, and the subject of a transitive verb is expressed by another.
  2. adj. Of or relating to the grammatical case of the subject of a transitive verb in such a language.
  3. n. The ergative case.
  4. n. An ergative inflection.
  5. n. A nominal having an ergative form.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. grammar Used of various situations where the subject of transitive constructions have different grammatical cases or thematic relations to those of intransitive constructions.
  2. n. linguistics the ergative case
  3. n. linguistics an ergative verb or other expression

Etymologies

  1. From the Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergatēs, "worker"), from ἔργον (ergon, "work"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Greek ergatēs, worker, from ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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