Noun: orgo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | orgo |
| Plural m | orgos |
Sample Sentences
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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) [c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 357]
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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) [1457, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 649:]
Nouns inflected like orgo
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
orgõo', Latin Nouns '
organum', Portuguese Nouns '
órgão'.
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