orgia

orgia

1. plural of orgion

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 (in Galician), 2014–2026

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 [of Bacchus] 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, 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

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^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “orgia”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

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

• Hyphenation: or‧gi‧a

orgia f (plural orgias)

1. orgy

• “orgia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “orgia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025