How do you translate "vorko" in English

Question

As with some other words, like pravi, provi, pruvi, the case of verko and vorko makes morphologically apparent a semantic link with a vowel change, as it often occurs in Semitics languages.

So, I would translate verko with work. That's probably the closest single word counterpart, although the semantic fields of each term greatly differ. Now, I recently discovered vorko, that PIV define as Grava konstruaĵo (aŭtovojo, ponto, tunelo ks). Is there a better suited translation than work for vorko, so one might translate a discourse containing both verko and vorko in English?

Answer 1

vorko stems from the English work as verko from the German Werk. Both mean something like "master piece" in the original languages. Also both mean labori (Low German/Dutch). The Esperanto definition of verko is quite limited, hence the very rarely used vorko.

Distinguishing the two "works" means looking for synonyms:

vorko = monument
verko = writings, piece
verkaro = oeuvre

Answer 2

"Public work" (singular of "public works.")

Of course, context is everything.

Answer 3

The word vorko is a neologismo and since we already have two roots, labori and verki, for different kinds of acts of work, there is little excuse to introduce yet another work-related root. As Tomaso Alexander already pointed out vorko is used for "a public work", which denotes something that is constructed. Therefore the bona lingvo expression is konstruaĵo, konstruado or konstruejo depending on the context.

Answer 4

In French: un ouvrage d'art. Ekzemple: La nova fervojo inter Liono kaj Milano necesigos la konstruon de pluraj vorkoj.