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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

  • Παλαίμονα δὲ καὶ εἰπεῖν καλὸν καὶ τοὔνομα αὐτοῦ ὀνομάσαι, καὶ ὁρ́κον ποιήσασθαι, καὶ τῆσ τελετῆσ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ καὶ τοῦ ὀργιασμοῦ μετασχεῖν, τοσοῦτόσ τισ ἵμεροσ πρόσεστι τῷ παιδὶ καὶ ἰδεῖν γε καὶ ἐν γράμματι, ὅπου μὲν ἐπὶ δελφῖνοσ φερόμενον, ὅπου δὲ καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτῶν τῶν νώτων τῆσ θαλάττησ, ὅπου δὲ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶ τῆσ μητρὸσ τὸ θάλοσ τοῦ παιδὸσ καὶ τὴν ὡρ́αν καὶ τὸ ἄνθοσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 11:8)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ Κρήτῃ καὶ ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τοῦ Διὸσ ἱερὰ ἰδίωσ ἐπετελεῖτο μετ’ ὀργιασμοῦ καὶ τοιούτων προπόλων οἱοῖ περὶ τὸν Διόνυσόν εἰσιν οἱ Σάτυροι· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 20:1)

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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