释义 |
-urgy -urgysuff. Technique or process for working with: zymurgy. [New Latin -ūrgia, from Greek -ourgiā, from -ourgos, working, from ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots.]-urgy n combining form indicating technology concerned with a specified material: metallurgy. [from Greek -urgia, from ergon work]-urgy a combining form meaning “making, production” of the thing specified by the initial element (dramaturgy; thaumaturgy), used esp., on the model of metallurgy, in the names of various applied sciences (chemurgy; zymurgy). [< Greek -ourgia <*-o-worgia, akin to érgon work] |