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See also: Orgie
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
orgie (plural orgies)
- Obsolete form of orgy.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- While Mr. Justice Lowe's servant was spurring into town at a pace which made the hollow road resound, and struck red flashes from the stones, up the river, at the Mills, Mistress Mary Matchwell was celebrating a sort of orgie.
- 1897, The Review of Reviews (volume 16, page 19)
- He became the central figure in a nation of frenzied speculators who made the so-called “Kaffir Circus” the wildest financial orgie in the history of the world.
Anagrams[edit]
Czech[edit]
Noun[edit]
orgie f
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin orgia (“orgy”), from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia, “secret rites, mysteries”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
orgie n (singular definite orgiet, plural indefinite orgier)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of orgie
See also[edit]
orgie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin orgia, a neuter plural reinterpreted as a feminine singular; itself from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
orgie f (plural orgies)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “orgie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
orgie f
Anagrams[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French orgie, Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia). Compare urgie, probably an inherited doublet.
Noun[edit]
orgie f (plural orgii)
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