organism

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organism

Etymology

From organ +‎ -ism, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “tool, instrument”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“work”). Compare Medieval Latin organismus.

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Pronunciation

enPR: ôr′gə-nĭz'əm
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɡəˌnɪz.əm/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ɡəˌnɪz.əm/
- Audio (US): (file)

Noun

organism (plural organisms)

(obsolete, rare) The fact of being organic; organicity. [18th–19th c.]
Something with many separate interdependent parts, seen as being like a living thing; an organic system. [from 18th c.]
- 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 52:
  For the first time, Edith was aware of the hotel as a well populated organism, its attendants merely resting until an appropriate occasion should summon them to present themselves […] .
(biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism. [from 19th c.]
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
  Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
- 2019 July 16, Anahad O’Connor, “Cutting 300 Calories a Day Shows Health Benefits”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:organism

Derived terms

Translations

living thing

Afrikaans: organisme
Albanian: organizëm (sq) m
Arabic: كَائِن حَيّ m (kāʔin ḥayy)
Aragonese: organismo m
Armenian: օրգանիզմ (hy) (ōrganizm)
Assamese: জীৱ (ziw)
Asturian: organismu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: orqanizm
Arabic: وجود (wujūd), عضويت (üzviyyät)
Bashkir: организм (organizm)
Basque: organismo
Belarusian: аргані́зм m (arhanízm)
Bengali: জীব (bn) (jib)
Bulgarian: органи́зъм (bg) m (organízǎm)
Burmese: သက်ရှိ (my) (sakhri.)
Catalan: organisme (ca) m
Chechen: дийнат (diı̇nat)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 生物 (sang¹ mat⁶)

Hokkien: 生物 (zh-min-nan) (seng-bu̍t)

Mandarin: 生物 (zh) (shēngwù), 有機體 / 有机体 (zh) (yǒujītǐ)
Czech: organismus (cs) m
Danish: organisme (da) c
Dutch: organisme (nl) n
Esperanto: organismo (eo)
Estonian: organism (et)
Faroese: vera (fo) f, lívvera f, skepna f
Finnish: eliö (fi), organismi (fi)
French: organisme (fr) m
Galician: organismo (gl) m
Georgian: ორგანიზმი (organizmi)
German: Organismus (de) m, Lebewesen (de) n
Greek: οργανισμός (el) m (organismós)
Haitian Creole: òganis
Hebrew: אוֹרְגָּנִיזְם (he) m (organízm), יְצוּר (he) m (yetsúr)
Hindi: जीव (hi) m (jīv)
Hungarian: organizmus (hu), élőlény (hu)
Icelandic: lífvera (is) f
Ido: organismo (io)
Indonesian: organisme (id)
Ingrian: organisma
Interlingua: organismo
Irish: orgánach m
Italian: organismo (it) m
Japanese: 生物 (ja) (せいぶつ, seibutsu), 有機体 (ja) (ゆうきたい, yūkitai), 生き物 (ja) (いきもの, ikimono)
Kazakh: ағза (ağza), организм (organizm)
Khmer: ភាវរស់ (phiəvĕəʼrŭəh)
Korean: 생물(生物) (ko) (saengmul), 유기체(有機體) (ko) (yugiche), 생물체(生物體) (ko) (saengmulche)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: zîndewer (ku), organîzma (ku)
Kyrgyz: организм (organizm)
Lao: ສິ່ງມີຊີວິດ (lo) (sing mī sī wit)
Latin: organismus m
Latvian: organisms m
Lithuanian: organizmas m
Macedonian: органи́зам m (organízam)
Malay: organisma (ms)
Maori: rauropi, kaiao
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: организм (organizm), махбод (mn) (maxbod)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: organisme (no) m

Nynorsk: organisme m
Ottoman Turkish: عضویت (ouzviyyet)
Pashto: ارګانیزم m (organizm)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: جانْدار (jândâr), سازْوارِه (sâzvâre), اُرْگانیسْم (orgânism)
Polish: organizm (pl) m
Portuguese: organismo (pt) m
Romanian: organism (ro) n
Russian: органи́зм (ru) m (organízm)
Samogitian: uorganėzmos m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: органѝзам m

Roman: organìzam (sh) m
Slovak: organizmus (sk) m
Slovene: organizem (sl) m
Spanish: organismo (es) m
Swedish: organism (sv) c
Tagalog: tataghay, bagahay
Tajik: организм (organizm), ҷондор (jondor)
Telugu: జీవి (te) (jīvi)
Thai: สิ่งมีชีวิต (th) (sìng-mii-chii-wít)
Turkish: organizma (tr), canlı (tr)
Turkmen: organizm
Ukrainian: органі́зм (uk) m (orhanízm)
Urdu: نَامِیَہ m (nāmiya), جِیوْ m (jīv)
Uyghur: ئورگانىزم (organizm)
Uzbek: organizm (uz)
Venetan: organizmo m
Vietnamese: sinh vật (vi) (生物 (vi))
Welsh: organeb (cy) f
Yiddish: אָרגאַניזם m (organizm)

any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things

Belarusian: аргані́зм m (arhanízm)
Bulgarian: органи́зъм (bg) m (organízǎm)
Catalan: organisme (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 生物 (zh) (shēngwù), 有機體 / 有机体 (zh) (yǒujītǐ), 有機體 / 有机体 (zh) (yǒujītǐ)
Finnish: organismi (fi)
Galician: organismo (gl) m
Italian: organismo (it) m
Japanese: 有機体 (ja) (ゆうきたい, yūkitai)
Korean: 유기체(有機體) (ko) (yugiche)
Malay: organisma (ms)
Maori: rauropi
Portuguese: organismo (pt) m
Russian: органи́зм (ru) m (organízm)
Spanish: organismo (es) m
Swedish: organism (sv) c
Turkish: organizma (tr)
Ukrainian: органі́зм (uk) m (orhanízm)

Anagrams

moringas, roamings, sinogram

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French organisme.

Noun

organism n (plural organisme)

organism

Declension

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	organism	organismul	organisme	organismele
genitive-dative	organism	organismului	organisme	organismelor
vocative	organismule		organismelor

Swedish

Noun

organism c

(biology) an organism
(figuratively) an organism (something with many separate interdependent parts)

Declension

Declension of organism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	organism	organisms
singular	definite	organismen	organismens
plural	indefinite	organismer	organismers
plural	definite	organismerna	organismernas

Derived terms

mikroorganism

References