organum

See also: orgánum

English

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

organum (plural organums or organa)

(music) a type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong
(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.

type of medieval polyphony

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

organum n (genitive organī); second declension

Second declension.

Terms derived from organum

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)

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

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