organului

Organului is the genitive and dative singular form of the Romanian noun organ. It is used to indicate possession or a relationship with an organ, whether in anatomy, physiology, or in the context of a musical instrument. For example, funcțiile organului means the organ’s functions, and structura organului refers to the structure of the organ.

In Romanian, organ refers to a part of a living body with a specialized function, as well as to the musical instrument known as the organ. The form organului appears in phrases where the organ is the possessor or the recipient of an action, such as descrierea structurii organului or simptomele organului afectat. The plural and other cases are formed through different endings, but organului specifically marks the singular genitive/dative.

Etymology traces organ back to Latin organum, with Romanian adopting the form organ and its inflected variants. The genitive-dative ending -ului is a standard pattern for masculine nouns ending in -an in their definite singular form, and it is commonly used in technical, medical, and scholarly text to connect attributes to a specific organ.

Common usage notes: organului appears most often in neutral, descriptive prose about anatomy, physiology, or medicine, and also in discussions of the organ in non-biological senses (for example, the musical organ). Its precise meaning is determined by the surrounding syntax and the noun it modifies.

See also: organ, Romanian grammar, anatomical terminology.