organum

Borrowed from Latin organum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “organ, instrument, tool”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɡə.nəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ɡə.nəm/

organum (plural organums or organa)

1. (music) A type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong.
2. (archaic) A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted.
   • 1794, George Adams, Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy

     He has given us an organum of a different origin and construction from that of Arislotle […]

   • 1823, Thomas Wirgman, An Entirely New, Complete and Permanent Science of Philosophy

     Another important circumstance respecting our transcendental esthetics is, that it does not insinuate itself merely as a plausible hypothesis, but is as certain and indubitable as we can require any theory to be in order to serve as an organum.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “organ, instrument, tool”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ɡa.num/, [ˈɔr.ɡa.nũ]

organum n (genitive organī); second declension

1. an implement, instrument, tool
2. any musical instrument

Second declension.

• organicus

Note: In many Romance languages, it is unclear whether inherited or borrowed from Latin.

• Italian: organo, argano
• Old French: organe, orgene
  • → Middle English: organe, organ, orgayn, organt, orgene, orgeyn, orgyn, orgon, orgone, orgoyn, orgoun, orgun, orgne
    • English: organ
      • → Korean: 오르간 (oreugan)
      • → Maori: ōkana
      • → Vietnamese: oóc-gan
    • Scots: organ
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: muérganu, órganu
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: òrgan
• Old Portuguese: [Term?]
  • Galician: órgano
  • Portuguese: órgão
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: órgano
    • → Basque: organo
    • → Tagalog: organo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: organ, argagn, orghin, vuarzine
• → Catalan: orgue
• → Czech: varhany
• → English: organum
• → French: orgue (earlier borrowing)
  • → English: orgue
  • → Norman: orgue
  • → Persian: ارگ‎ (org)
  • → Romanian: orgă
• → French: organe (later borrowing)
  • Haitian Creole: ògàn
• → Irish: orgán
• → German: Organ
  • → Czech: orgán
• → Hungarian: orgona
• → Middle Dutch: orgele
  • Dutch: orgel
    • Afrikaans: orrel
    • → Indonesian: orgel
    • → Japanese: オルゴール (orugōru)
      • → English: orgel
    • → Sranan Tongo: orgu
• → Middle English: organum
• → Middle Low German: orgel, örgel
  • → Danish: orgel
  • → Estonian: orel
  • → Icelandic: orgel
  • → Faroese: orgul
  • → Norwegian: orgel
  • → Swedish: orgel
    • → Finnish: urut
• → Old Frisian: orgel
  • West Frisian: oargel
• → Old High German: orgela, argela
  • Middle High German: orgel
    • Alemannic German: Oorgele
    • German: Orgel
    • Luxembourgish: Uergel
  • → Macedonian: оргула (orgula)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: оргуље

    Latin: orgulje

  • → Slovene: orgle

• organum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• organum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• organum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• organum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• organum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from Latin organum. Doublet of organe.

organum (plural organum)

1. A device used to produce music; a musical instrument.
2. A keyboard instrument that produces sound by air moved through pipes; an organ.

• (general musical instrument): instrument; organe; simphane; symphonye
• (keyboard instrument): organe

• “organum (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.