Orgiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia).

名詞

orgia n pl (genitive orgiōrum); second declension

1. a nocturnal festival in honor of Bacchus, accompanied by wild bacchanalian cries; the feast or orgies of Bacchus
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64.259–260:

     […] , pars obscūra cavīs celebrābant orgia cistīs,
     orgia quae frūstrā cupiunt audīre profānī.

     Some of them celebrated an obscure festival [of Bacchus] with hollow baskets, a festival that the profane in vain want to attend.

2. (in general) any secret frantic revels, orgies

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

派生した語

参照

• “orgia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "orgia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “orgia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orgia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “orgia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin