Peter Streitenberger wrote:is it clear at all that this word is a adjective or maybe rather a noun?
One German translation renders "good housekeepers".
The distinction between nouns and adjectives is pretty weak in Greek, because adjectives are readily substantivized into nouns with the article. You need to look for things like inflection for gender and degree. I wouldn't fault a translation for rendering the term with a noun.
Peter Streitenberger wrote:As you wrote:
"I think the formation is οἶκος + ἔργον > *οἰκοεργός > οἰκουργός"
Are there other analog neologisms that use "ergon" as base ?
Words like κακοῦργον come to mind.
Peter Streitenberger wrote:I wrote:
"It's not clear to me what you mean by "building pattern"
What I meant is, in which Declension class belongs compound adjectives regurlarly - are they always two-termination ones?
I think that compound adjectives are often, even usually, two-termination. I don't have the resources at hand to determine if they are always so. (Since we're dealing with language, qualifications like "always" are problematic.)
Stephen C. Carlson, Ph.D. (Duke)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Theology, Uppsala