Ὄργανα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

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

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

Proper noun

Ὄργανᾰ • (Órgana)

1. Hormuz (island in the Strait of Hormuz)
   • a. AD 131, L. Flavius Arrianus (aut.), J.F. Dübner (ed.), E.I. Robson (tr.), Ἰνδική in Arrian, with an English translation II (1933), ch. xxxvii, § 2 (p. 414):

     Καὶ ἡ μὲν ἐρήμη νῆσος Ὄργανα ἐκαλέετο, ἐς ἣν δὲ ὡρμήθησαν Ὀάρακτα·

     Kaì hē mèn erḗmē nêsos Órgana ekaléeto, es hḕn dè hōrmḗthēsan Oárakta;

     The desert island was called Organa, and that off which they moored Oaracta. ― tr. ibidem (p. 415)

Declension

No inflected forms are attested.

Descendants

• Latin: Organa

See also

• Ὀάρακτα (Oárakta)

References

• “ORGANA”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly