orgue

From French orgue, from Latin organum (“organ, instrument, tool”), from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “organ, instrument, tool”). Doublet of organ, organon, and organum.

orgue (plural orgues)

1. (military) Any of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.
2. (military) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.

• rogue, rouge, Rouge, Rogue

Inherited from Latin organum. Doublet of òrgan, which was borrowed from Latin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔr.ɡə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔɾ.ɣe]

orgue m (plural orgues or òrguens)

1. (organ instruments) organ
2. (firearms) (historical) A set of arquebus which could be fired all at once or one by one.

• òrgan

• “orgue”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Latin organum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon). Doublet of organe, a later borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁɡ/

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orgue m (plural orgues)

1. (music) organ

• Conventionally, orgue is grammatically masculine in the singular, but feminine in the plural; the same applies to amour and délice.

• orgue de Barbarie
• point d'orgue

• → Persian: ارگ (org)

• orgues

• “orgue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rouge

Borrowed from French orgue.

orgue m (plural orgues)

1. (Jersey, music) organ

• organiste (“organist”)