organ – English noun declension

English noun forms of organ

Noun: organ
Singularorgan
Pluralorgans

Sample Sentences

  • bodily organs
  • vital organ
  • No matter the extraordinary progress that has been made in heart surgery over the past century, the heart remains a vulnerable organ. [2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 98:]
  • This Organ is called a Thermometer, or Thermoscope, because the degrees of Heat and Cold are measured and marked by it. [1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy:]
  • 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. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • If the Snake has an unmistakeable resemblance to the male organ in its active state, the foliage of the tree or bush is equally remindful of the female. [1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 81:]
  • Lieutenant Roberts was also severely wounded by a missile, or weapon called an Organ, which is composed of about thirty-six gun barrels so joined as to fire at once. [1790, H. Compton, A particular account of the European military adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803, page 61:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-der.
3. Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon)bor.
4. Latin organumder.
5. Old French organebor.
6. Middle English organe
7. English organ
8. From Middle English organe, from Old French organe and Old English organ, both 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-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue. See: Middle English Nouns 'organe', Old English Nouns 'organ', Latin Nouns 'organum', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ὄργανον'.

Verbs referencing "organ"

Finnish Nouns orgaani.