ὄργανα (organa)

ὄργανα is an Ancient Greek form of ὄργανον, meaning “tool, instrument”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of ὄργανος, “instrument (garbled; cf. ὄργανον)”.

Found 121 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 1208: καὶ λογχοποιῶν ὄργανα κτᾶσθαι μάτην;

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 1.10: δοκῶ γάρ μοι δείξειν τὰ περὶ τὴν τῆς τροφῆς οἰκονομίαν ὄργανά τε καὶ τὰς δυνάμεις αὐτῶν διὰ ταύτην γεγονότα. ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἡ ἐνέργεια ταύτης τῆς δυνάμεως ἐξομοίωσίς ἐστιν, ὁμ …

Arrian, Indica 37.2: καὶ ἡ μὲν ἐρήμη νῆσος Ὄργανα ἐκαλέετο, ἐς ἣν δὲ ὡρμίσθησαν Ὀάρακτα. ἄμπελοί τε ἐν αὐτῇ ἐπεφύκεσαν καὶ φοίνικες, καὶ σιτοφόρος ἦν· τὸ δὲ μῆκος τῆς νήσου στάδιοι ὀκτακόσιοι. καὶ ὁ ὕπαρχος τῆς νήσου Μαζήνης συνέπλωεν αὐτοῖσι μέχρι Σούσων, ἐθελοντὴς ἡγεμὼν τοῦ πλόου.

All forms of ὄργανον (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.