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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from the same root as ὀργή (orgḗ) and ἔργον (érgon).
Noun
ὄργῐᾰ • (órgia) n (genitive ὀργῐ́ων); second declension
- secret rites, secret worship, practiced by the initiated
- rites, sacrifices in general
- nominative plural of ὄργιον (órgion)
- accusative plural of ὄργιον (órgion)
- vocative plural of ὄργιον (órgion)
Inflection
References
- “ὄργια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄργια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄργια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὄργια”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.