orgia
Latin
noun
Definitions
- a nocturnal festival in honor of Bacchus, accompanied by wild bacchanalian cries; the feast or orgies of Bacchus
- (in general) any secret frantic revels, orgies
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄργια (mysteries, secret rites).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ὄργια
Gloss
mysteries, secret rites
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- orgy English
- Orgie German
- orgia Italian
- orgiaque French
- orgie French
- orgies French
- оргия Russian
- orgía Spanish, Castilian
- ὄργια Ancient Greek
- *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- orgia Portuguese
- orgia Polish
- orgie Danish
- orgija Serbo-Croatian
- оргија Serbo-Croatian
- orgie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- urgie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- оргия Bulgarian
- orgija Slovene
- orgija Lithuanian