δημιουργός

• δημῐοεργός (dēmĭoergós) — Epic

From an earlier unattested *δημιο-ϝεργός (*dēmio-wergós), from a univerbation of δήμια ἔργᾰ (dḗmia érgă). By surface analysis, δήμῐος (dḗmĭos, “public”) +‎ ουργός (ourgós, “worker”); for the second element, compare ἔργον (érgon, “labor, work”).^[1]

δημῐουργός • (dēmĭourgós) m (genitive δημῐουργοῦ); second declension

1. one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman
   • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes:

     ὀρφναίη δ’ ἐπίκουρος ἐπαύετο δαιμονίη νύξ, ἡ πλείων, τάχα δ’ ὄρθρος ἐγίγνετο δημιοεργός

     orphnaíē d’ epíkouros epaúeto daimoníē núx, hē pleíōn, tákha d’ órthros egígneto dēmioergós

     but his dark ally the divine night was almost over, and dawn the craftsman was quickly coming / Note: dawn is called ‘the craftsman’ because it wakes craftsmen and other people and makes them turn to their crafts.

   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 992:

     ἆρ’ οὐκ Ἐρινὺς τοῦτ’ ἐχάλκευσεν ξίφος κἀκεῖνον Ἅιδης, δημιουργὸς ἄγριος?

     âr’ ouk Erinùs toût’ ekhálkeusen xíphos kakeînon Háidēs, dēmiourgòs ágrios?

     Didn't the Fury forge this sword and Hades, the cruel craftsman, that [belt]?

   • circa 1st century AD, Hippocrates of Kos, Precepts 2, (author unknown):

     κάρτα γὰρ μεγάλην ὠφελίην περιποιήσει τοῖς γε νοσέουσι καὶ τοῖς τούτων δημιουργοῖς.

     kárta gàr megálēn ōphelíēn peripoiḗsei toîs ge noséousi kaì toîs toútōn dēmiourgoîs.

     For it will confer a big help to the sick anyway and to practitioners in this field.

   1. the maker of the world
2. (in some Peloponnesian states) magistrate

• δημῐουργῐκός (dēmĭourgĭkós)
• ἐπιδημιουργοί (epidēmiourgoí)

• Latin: dēmiūrgus, dāmiūrgus
  • → Catalan: demiürg
  • → French: démiurge
  • → Italian: demiurgo
  • → Portuguese: demiurgo
  • → Romanian: demiurg
  • → Spanish: demiurgo

• “δημιουργός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δημιουργός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δημιουργός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δημιουργός (dēmiourgós, “worker for the common good”). Synchronically analysable as being from stem δημι-, from δῆμος (dêmos) + -ουργός (-ourgós), from the root of έργο (érgo).

• IPA^(key): /ði.mi.uɾˈɣos/
• Hyphenation: δη‧μι‧ουρ‧γός

δημιουργός • (dimiourgós) m or f (plural δημιουργοί)

1. creator of original works, craftsman, artisan
2. Demiurge

• αίτιος (aítios, “responsible”)
• πρόξενος m (próxenos, “cause, consul”)