ὄργια

See also: όργια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from the same root as ὀργή ‎(orgḗ) and ἔργον ‎(érgon).

Noun

ὄργῐᾰ • ‎(órgia) n ‎(genitive ὀργῐ́ων); second declension

1. secret rites, secret worship, practiced by the initiated
2. rites, sacrifices in general
3. nominative plural of ὄργιον ‎(órgion)
4. accusative plural of ὄργιον ‎(órgion)
5. vocative plural of ὄργιον ‎(órgion)

Inflection

Second declension of τᾰ̀ ὄργῐᾰ; τῶν ὀργῐ́ων

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ ὄργῐᾰ
Genitive	τῶν ὀργῐ́ων
Dative	τοῖς ὀργῐ́οις
Accusative	τᾰ̀ ὄργῐᾰ
Vocative	ὄργῐᾰ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• ὄργια in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄργια in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὄργια» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὄργια in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • mystery idem, page 549.
  • orgies idem, page 579.