orgía

See also: orgia and órgia

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrciːja/

Noun

orgía f (genitive singular orgíu, nominative plural orgíur)

1. orgy

Declension

Declension of orgía (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	orgía	orgían	orgíur	orgíurnar
accusative	orgíu	orgíuna	orgíur	orgíurnar
dative	orgíu	orgíunni	orgíum	orgíunum
genitive	orgíu	orgíunnar	orgía	orgíanna

Spanish

Alternative forms

• órgia

Etymology

Borrowed from French orgie, which explains the accentuation on -í-, from Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia). According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested circa 1830, aside from an odd occurrence in Juan Boscán Almogáver (16th c.). The variant órgia is attested in writers aware of the accentuation in Latin and Greek, but the form borrowed via French has prevailed in common usage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɾˈxia/ [oɾˈxi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: or‧gí‧a

Noun

orgía f (plural orgías)

1. orgy
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 7:

     Ahí se reúnen con los Brujos muertos, que conservan la misma figura que tuvieron en vida; celebran con ellos grandes y escandalosas orgías en que se sirven los manjares y vinos más exquisitos en vajillas de oro y plata.

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Related terms

• orgiástico

 

Further reading

• “orgía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “energía”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 611