orgie

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.

• regio, regio-

orgie f

1. orgy

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

• IPA^(key): /ɔrɡiə/, [ˈɒːˀɡ̊jə]

orgie n (singular definite orgiet, plural indefinite orgier)

1. orgy

• orgie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.ʒi/

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orgie f (plural orgies)

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

• orgiaque
• orgiastique

• “orgie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

orgie f

1. plural of orgia

• erigo
• regio

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

orgie f (plural orgii)

1. orgy