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organ

See also: Organ, orgán, and òrgan

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EnglishEdit

 
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The console of a pipe organ (musical instrument).

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

organ (plural organs)

  1. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
    • 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 98:
      No matter the extraordinary progress that has been made in heart surgery over the past century, the heart remains a vulnerable organ.
  2. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
  3. (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
  4. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
  5. A species of cactus (Stenocereus thurberi).
  6. (slang) The penis.

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DescendantsEdit

TranslationsEdit

body of an organization

Further readingEdit

VerbEdit

organ (third-person singular simple present organs, present participle organing, simple past and past participle organed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
    • Bishop Mannyngham
      Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.

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Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

organ (plural organs)

  1. Alternative form of organe

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin organum, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon),

NounEdit

organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ or organer, definite plural organa or organene)

  1. (anatomy, biology) an organ
  2. an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
  3. a body (e.g. an advisory body)

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

  • orgel (musical instrument)

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon), via Latin organum

NounEdit

organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ, definite plural organa)

  1. (anatomy, biology) an organ
  2. an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
  3. a body (e.g. an advisory body)

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

  • orgel (musical instrument)

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

organ m inan

  1. organ, part of an organism
  2. (by extension) unit of government dedicated to a specific function
  3. (politics) organ, official publication of a political organization

DeclensionEdit

declension of organ
singular plural
nominative organ organy
genitive organu organów
dative organowi organom
accusative organ organy
instrumental organem organami
locative organie organach
vocative organie organy

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Byzantine Greek ὄργανος (órganos), from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon), partly through the intermediate of Slavic *orъganъ. Some senses also based on French orgue (cf. orgă), Italian organum, Italian organo.

NounEdit

organ n (plural organe)

  1. organ (part of organism)
  2. (archaic) organ (musical instrument)

DeclensionEdit

declension of organ
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) organ organul (niște) organe organele
genitive/dative (unui) organ organului (unor) organe organelor
vocative organule organelor

SynonymsEdit

  • (musical instrument): orgă

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ǒrɡaːn/
  • Hyphenation: or‧gan

NounEdit

òrgān m (Cyrillic spelling о̀рга̄н)

  1. organ (part of an organism)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of organ
singular plural
nominative òrgān organi
genitive organa orgána
dative organu organima
accusative organ organe
vocative organe organi
locative organu organima
instrumental organom organima

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

organ n

  1. (anatomy) an organ (a part of the body)
  2. (dated) a voice (of a singer or actor)
    Hon förenade med ett utmärkt teateryttre en hög grad af intelligens, en ypperlig organ och en förträfflig deklamationskonst
    She combined with excellent theatrical looks a high degree of intelligence, an extraordinary voice and a splendid mastery of declamation
  3. an organ; a newspaper (of an organization, i.e. its voice)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of organ 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative organ organet organ organen
Genitive organs organets organs organens

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