orgo

English

Etymology

org(anic) +‎ -o

Adjective

orgo (not comparable)

1. (informal) Organic.
   • 2007, Lesley Alexandra Sharp, Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies, →ISBN:

     In the end, "mech" inventions clearly whet financial appetites; the "orgo" approach remains messier and thus riskier as far as investment capital is concerned.

   • 2010, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood: A Mitch Milligan Murder Mystery, →ISBN:

     For lunch...we got orgo pork roast medallions stuffed with sage dressing. Always delicious. Baked orgo spuds...herb and garlic butter. Orgo green beans almond...something or other. And fucking orgo carrots in an orgo honey glaze.

   • 2014, D. C. Cowan, Fire of Light: Beauty, Loving, Hero, →ISBN:

     You see I haven't been feeling well lately so I sent my orgo clone in to work for me.

Noun

orgo (uncountable)

1. (informal) Alternative form of Orgo
   • 2008, Kate Brian, Last Christmas: The Private Prequel, →ISBN, page 222:

     Taking orgo and biology at the same time is really gonna blow.

   • 2009, David Noyd, My Duke Experience: The Memoirs of David Noyd, →ISBN, page 226:

     I'm also taking orgo again and a biological anatomy and anthropology class which should also be equally as much fun (orgo maybe not so much, but it should definitely be exciting, to say the least).

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese orgõo (attested since the 14th century), from Latin organum. Doublet of órgano. Cognate with Portuguese órgão. For the development of the ending, compare ravo (from Latin raphanus) and orfo (from Latin orphanus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔɾɣʊ]

Noun

orgo m (plural orgos)

1. (music, usually in the plural) organ
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 357:

     Ca ali eram os jograres moytos de moytas maneyras: os hũus cõ vyolas, outros cõ loudes, outros cõ çitolas, outros cõ çinfonyas, outros cõ arpas, outros (cõ) salteyros et orgõos

     Because there were many musicians in many ways: some of them with violas, another ones with lutes, some others with citterns, others with hurdy-gurdies, others with harps, others with psalteries and organs

   • 1457, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 649:

     en cada corta feira y en cada sabado sen as misas cantadas con los orgoos tangidos

     each Wednesday and Saturday the masses should be sung while they play the organs

   Synonym: órgano

2. warp beam of a loom

   Synonyms: rodal, urdidoira

3. cloth roller of a loom
4. swollen lymph node

   Synonym: landra

5. bump in the head

   Synonym: pote

References

• “orgõo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “rgõ” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “orgoo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “orgo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “orgo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “orgo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.