orgia

See also: orgía

Estonian

Noun

orgia (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. orgy

Declension

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔr.d͡ʒa/, [ˈɔr̺d͡ʒä]
  • Rhymes: -ɔrdʒa
  • Stress: òrgia
  • Hyphenation: or‧gia

Noun

orgia f (plural orge or orgie)

  1. (sex) orgy

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia).

Noun

orgia

  1. a nocturnal festival in honor of Bacchus, accompanied by wild bacchanalian cries; the feast or orgies of Bacchus
  2. (in general) any secret frantic revels, orgies

Descendants

References

  • 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, 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

Portuguese

Noun

orgia f (plural orgias)

  1. orgy

Spanish

Noun

orgia f (plural orgias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of orgía
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