Ὄργανα
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ór.ɡa.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɡa.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɣa.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɣa.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɣa.na/
Proper noun[edit]
Ὄργανᾰ • (Órgana)
- Hormuz (island in the Strait of Hormuz)
- a. AD 131, L. Flavius Arrianus (aut.), J.F. Dübner (ed.), E.I. Robson (tr.), Ἰνδική in Arrian, with an English translation II (1933), ch. xxxvii, § 2 (p. 414):
- Καὶ ἡ μὲν ἐρήμη νῆσος Ὄργανα ἐκαλέετο, ἐς ἣν δὲ ὡρμήθησαν Ὀάρακτα·
- Kaì hē mèn erḗmē nêsos Órgana ekaléeto, es hḕn dè hōrmḗthēsan Oárakta;
- The desert island was called Organa, and that off which they moored Oaracta. ― tr. ibidem (p. 415)
- a. AD 131, L. Flavius Arrianus (aut.), J.F. Dübner (ed.), E.I. Robson (tr.), Ἰνδική in Arrian, with an English translation II (1933), ch. xxxvii, § 2 (p. 414):
Declension[edit]
No inflected forms are attested.
Descendants[edit]
- Latin: Organa
See also[edit]
- Ὀάρακτα (Oárakta)
References[edit]
- “ORGANA”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly