orgie
French
noun
Definitions
- orgy (group activity)
- orgy (group sex)
- orgy, load, ocean, score (large amount)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin orgia (orgy) 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
- orgia Latin
- Orgie German
- orgia Italian
- orgiaque French
- orgies French
- оргия Russian
- orgía Spanish, Castilian
- ὄργια Ancient Greek
- *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- orgia Portuguese
- orgie Danish
- orgija Serbo-Croatian
- оргија Serbo-Croatian
- orgie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- urgie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- оргия Bulgarian
- orgija Slovene
- orgija Lithuanian