Etymograph

English

organized

From organ (“musical instrument”) + -ize, calque of German organisierte/organisirte.

Formed from organ ‘musical instrument’ + -ize

Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- ‘to make’

Ancient Greek ὄργανον ‘an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ…’

Latin organum ‘an implement, instrument, tool’

Old French organe

Middle English organe ‘a keyboard instrument that produces sound by…’

English organ

Today it means

adj Of a musical instrument, having keys (like an organ); keyed.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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