-urgy

-urgy

suff.

Technique or process for working with: zymurgy.

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[New Latin -ūrgia, from Greek -ourgiā, from -ourgos, working, from ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots.]

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-urgy

n combining form

indicating technology concerned with a specified material: metallurgy.

[from Greek -urgia, from ergon work]

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-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]

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