orgie

See also: Orgie

English

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• regio-, Ogier, regio

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈorɡɪjɛ]

Noun

orgie f

1. orgy

Declension

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

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrɡiə/, [ˈɒːˀɡ̊jə]

Noun

orgie n (singular definite orgiet, plural indefinite orgier)

1. orgy

Inflection

Declension of orgie

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	orgie	orgiet	orgier	orgierne
genitive	orgies	orgiets	orgiers	orgiernes

See also

• orgie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.ʒi/

• Audio:

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Noun

orgie f (plural orgies)

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

Derived terms

• orgiaque
• orgiastique

Further reading

• “orgie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

orgie f

1. plural of orgia

Anagrams

• erigo, orige, regio

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

orgie f (plural orgii)

1. orgy

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	orgie	orgia		orgii	orgiile
genitive-dative	orgii	orgiei		orgii	orgiilor
vocative	orgie, orgio			orgiilor

Swedish

Noun

orgie c

1. an orgy

Declension

Declension of orgie

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	orgie	orgies
	definite	orgien	orgiens
plural	indefinite	orgier	orgiers
	definite	orgierna	orgiernas

See also

• gruppsex
• ormgrop

References

• orgie in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• orgie in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• orgie in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)