ὄργανον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“work”). Compare ἔργον (érgon, “work, deed”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ór.ɡa.non/ → /ˈor.ɣa.non/ → /ˈor.ɣa.non/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /ór.ɡa.non/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ɡa.non/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ɣa.non/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ɣa.non/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ɣa.non/

Noun

ὄργανον • (órganon) n (genitive ὀργάνου); second declension

1. instrument, implement, tool
2. sense organ
3. musical instrument
4. the material of a work (e.g. timber)
5. the product of a work (e.g. lumber)

Inflection

Second declension of ὄργανον, ὀργάνου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὄργανον	ὀργάνω	ὄργανᾰ
Genitive	ὀργάνου	ὀργάνοιν	ὀργάνων
Dative	ὀργάνῳ	ὀργάνοιν	ὀργάνοις
Accusative	ὄργανον	ὀργάνω	ὄργανᾰ
Vocative	ὄργανον	ὀργάνω	ὄργανᾰ
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Descendants

• Aramaic:
  • Hebrew: אורגנון‏ (ʾōrganōn)
  • Syriac: ܐܘܪܓܢܘܢ‏ (ʾōrgannōn)
• Greek: όργανο (órgano)
• Latin: organum
  • English: organ
• Old Armenian: երգիոն (ergion)
• Persian: ارغنون‏ (arğanun)
• Polish: organy
  • Ottoman Turkish: ارغنون‏ (erganun)
    • Turkish: erganun
• Russian: о́рган m (órgan), орга́н m (orgán)

References

• 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • appliance idem, page 35.
  • implement idem, page 421.
  • instrument idem, page 447.
  • machine idem, page 506.
  • musical instrument idem, page 547.
  • organ idem, page 579.
  • product idem, page 645.
  • tool idem, page 880.
  • utensil idem, page 941.
  • vehicle idem, page 946.
  • work idem, page 988.
• 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