ὄργανον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“work”). Compare ἔργον (érgon, “work, deed”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ór.ɡa.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɡa.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɣa.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɣa.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɣa.non/
Noun
ὄργᾰνον • (órganon) n (genitive ὀργᾰ́νου); second declension
- instrument, implement, tool
- sense organ
- musical instrument
- the material of a work (e.g. timber)
- the product of a work (e.g. lumber)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ὄργᾰνον tò órganon |
τὼ ὀργᾰ́νω tṑ orgánō |
τᾰ̀ ὄργᾰνᾰ tà órgana | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ὀργᾰ́νου toû orgánou |
τοῖν ὀργᾰ́νοιν toîn orgánoin |
τῶν ὀργᾰ́νων tôn orgánōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ὀργᾰ́νῳ tôi orgánōi |
τοῖν ὀργᾰ́νοιν toîn orgánoin |
τοῖς ὀργᾰ́νοις toîs orgánois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ὄργᾰνον tò órganon |
τὼ ὀργᾰ́νω tṑ orgánō |
τᾰ̀ ὄργᾰνᾰ tà órgana | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὄργᾰνον órganon |
ὀργᾰ́νω orgánō |
ὄργᾰνᾰ órgana | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Aramaic:
- → Georgian: ორგანო (organo)
- Greek: όργανο (órgano)
- → Latin: organum (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: երգիոն (ergion)
- Armenian: երգեհոն (ergehon)
- → Persian: ارغنون (arğanun)
- → Polish: organy
- → Ottoman Turkish: ارغنون (erganun)
- Turkish: erganun
- → Russian: о́рган m (órgan), орга́н m (orgán)
- Mariupol Greek: орга́но (orháno)
Further reading
- “ὄργανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄργανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄργανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “ὄργανον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- ὄργανον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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