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Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ór.ɡa.na/ → /ˈor.ɣa.na/ → /ˈor.ɣa.na/
Proper noun
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)
Declension
No inflected forms are attested.
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References
- “ORGANA”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly