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Organ 1
Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage English

Meaning & History

Metonymic occupational name for a player of a musical instrument (any musical instrument, not necessarily what is now known as an organ), from Middle English organ (Old French organe, Late Latin organum ‘device’, ‘(musical) instrument’, Greek organon ‘tool’, from ergein ‘to work or do’).
Added 1/9/2016 by cutenose
Edited 1/9/2016 by cutenose

Organ 2
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Type Surname (from given name)
Usage English

Meaning & History

From a rare medieval personal name, attested only in the Latinized forms Organus (masculine) and Organa (feminine).
Added 1/9/2016 by cutenose