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ὀργιασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀργιασμός ὀργιασμοῦ

Structure: ὀργιασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)rgia/zw

Sense

  1. celebration of orgies

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἣδιστα δὲ τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ ἑορταὶ καὶ εἰλαπίναι πρὸσ ἱεροῖσ καὶ μυήσεισ καὶ ὀργιασμοὶ καὶ κατευχαὶ θεῶν καὶ προσκυνήσεισ. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 9 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. celebration of orgies

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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