Ancient Greek

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

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, 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