Noun: órgia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: ór‧gia
| Singular f | órgia |
| Plural f | órgias |
Sample Sentences
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"¡Órgia! ¡órgia!" los réprobos gritaban:
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"¡Órgia! ¡el placer es nuestro Dios!" decian:
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Y blasfemos cantares entonaban,
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Y en festines opíparos bebian; […] ("Orgy! orgy!", the reprobates shouted:
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"Orgy! pleasure is our God!", they said:
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And they sang blasphemous songs,
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As they drank in their excessive feasts; […]) [1844, José Zorrilla, Ira de Dios, canto primero]
Nouns inflected like órgia
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia). Variant of orgía, among writers aware of the accentuation of the word in Latin and Greek. See: Latin Nouns '
orgia', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὄργια'.
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