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orgie

See also: Orgie

English

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Noun

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orgie (plural orgies)

  1. 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.

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Noun

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orgie f

  1. orgy

Declension

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Declension of orgie (soft feminine)
singular plural
nominative orgie orgie
genitive orgie orgií
dative orgii orgiím
accusative orgii orgie
vocative orgie orgie
locative orgii orgiích
instrumental orgií orgiemi

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Etymology

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From Latin orgia (“orgy”), from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia, “secret rites, mysteries”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɔrɡiə/, [ˈɒːˀɡ̊jə]

Noun

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orgie n (singular definite orgiet, plural indefinite orgier)

  1. orgy

Inflection

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Declension of orgie
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative orgie orgiet orgier orgierne
genitive orgies orgiets orgiers orgiernes

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French

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orgie

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin orgia, a neuter plural reinterpreted as a feminine singular; itself from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɔʁ.ʒi/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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orgie f (plural orgies)

  1. orgy (group activity)
  2. orgy (group sex)
  3. orgy, load, ocean, score (large amount)

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Italian

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Noun

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orgie f

  1. plural of orgia

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French orgie, Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia). Compare urgie, probably an inherited doublet.

Noun

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orgie f (plural orgii)

  1. orgy

Declension

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Declension of orgie
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) orgie orgia (niște) orgii orgiile
genitive/dative (unei) orgii orgiei (unor) orgii orgiilor
vocative orgie, orgio orgiilor

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Noun

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orgie c

  1. an orgy

Declension

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Declension of orgie 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative orgie orgien orgier orgierna
Genitive orgies orgiens orgiers orgiernas

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