orgia

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orgia (genitive orgia, partitive orgiat)

1. orgy

• orgia in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

orgia f (plural orgias, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of orxía

• “orgia” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

orgia

Wikipedia ^it

From Latin orgia, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔr.d͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -ɔrdʒa
• Hyphenation: òr‧gia

orgia f (plural orge or orgie)

1. (sex) orgy

• orgiaco
• orgiasta
• orgiastico

• Agrio, Argio, Goria, agirò, rogai

• orgium (rare)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia).

orgia n pl (genitive orgiōrum); second declension

1. a nocturnal festival in honor of Bacchus, accompanied by wild bacchanalian cries; the feast or orgies of Bacchus
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64.259–260:

     , pars obscūra cavīs celebrābant orgia cistīs,
     orgia quae frūstrā cupiunt audīre profānī.

     Some of them celebrated an obscure festival with hollow baskets, a festival that the profane in vain want to attend.

2. (in general) any secret frantic revels, orgies

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

• “orgia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orgia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “orgia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orgia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “orgia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

orgia

Wikipedia ^pl

Borrowed from German Orgie, from Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia, “secret rites, mysteries”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔr.ɡja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrɡja
• Syllabification: or‧gia

orgia f

1. (historical) orgy (secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses)
2. orgy (sexual group activity)
3. variety, diversity

• orgia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• orgia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin orgia or French orgie, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia).^[1]

• Hyphenation: or‧gi‧a

orgia f (plural orgias)

1. orgy

orgia f (plural orgias)

1. Obsolete spelling of orgía.

• “orgia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10