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Translation

organ (of the body); official journal, mouthpiece; agency of an institution

Word origin

From Greek organon, an instrument or tool, from ergon (work). The body-part sense and the newspaper sense are the same metaphor twice over: something through which work gets done.

Origin
Greek, via Latin
Root
organon
English cognates
organ, organise, energy

Examples

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The heart is the most important organ in the body.

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The magazine is the official organ of the society.

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Every organ of the body needs blood.

Three senses, and the dictionary is stricter about them than English is. First and commonest, the body part: , and the whole of anatomy follows. Second, an institution's mouthpiece, the journal or paper that speaks for a body: is standard Esperanto and turns up constantly in movement history, where every society had one. Third, and drier, an organ in the sense of an agency or a means by which something acts, as in .

Now the correction, because it is the one that costs marks. The musical instrument is not . It is orgeno. The church organ, the pipes, the thing with the pedals: orgeno, and an organist is an orgenisto. English collapsed the two words centuries ago and everybody has since had to live with the joke; Esperanto kept them apart, which is the better arrangement and the sort of thing the language does well. If you want an instrument in the general sense, is the word, and it covers the scientific and the musical alike.

The derivations are worth a line. is an organism, is to organise, and organiza is organisational. All three grew from the same Greek ergon, work, which is also sitting inside . That is a lot of vocabulary hanging off one small root, and noticing it is cheaper than learning the words one at a time.

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This word is part of lesson 41.