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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
orgía f (genitive singular orgíu, nominative plural orgíur)
- orgy
Declension
Declension of orgía (feminine)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French orgie, which explains the accentuation on -í-, from Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia). According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested circa 1830, aside from an odd occurrence in Juan Boscán Almogáver (16th c.). The variant órgia is attested in writers aware of the accentuation in Latin and Greek, but the form borrowed via French has prevailed in common usage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɾˈxia/
- Rhymes: -ia
- Syllabification: or‧gí‧a
Noun
orgía f (plural orgías)
- orgy
1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 7:Ahí se reúnen con los Brujos muertos, que conservan la misma figura que tuvieron en vida; celebran con ellos grandes y escandalosas orgías en que se sirven los manjares y vinos más exquisitos en vajillas de oro y plata.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “orgía”, 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
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “energía”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 611