orgie
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
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orgie f
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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)
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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)
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Further reading edit
- “orgie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
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orgie f
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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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orgie c
- an orgy
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | orgie | orgien | orgier | orgierna |
Genitive | orgies | orgiens | orgiers | orgiernas |