Where the Romanian word “organ” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (s.n.):
Din ngr. órganon, it. organo, lat. organum, fr. organe, germ. Organ, rus. organ.
→ Greek · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Greek (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Byzantine Greek ὄργανος ← Ancient Greek ὄργανον ← Old Church Slavonic оръганъ
- In film dialogue
- 21 times per million words · number 2,491 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 72 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 27 27 54 19 21 - Swap in a synonym
- gură (Inherited Latin), revistă (Italian), ziar (Made in Romanian), voce (Learned Latin), reprezentant (French), liră (French), orgă (French), glas (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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