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orgia
orgia
See also: orgía
Estonian
Noun
orgia (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Declension
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Italian
Etymology
From Latin orgia, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia).
Noun
orgia f (plural orge or orgie)
- (sex) orgy
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia).
Noun
orgia
- a nocturnal festival in honor of Bacchus, accompanied by wild bacchanalian cries; the feast or orgies of Bacchus
- (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