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 (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ ὄργῐᾰ tà órgia
Genitive	τῶν ὀργῐ́ων tôn orgíōn
Dative	τοῖς ὀργῐ́οις toîs orgíois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ ὄργῐᾰ tà órgia
Vocative	ὄργῐᾰ órgia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, 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.