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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

  • πολλοὺσ λέγοντεσ ὡσ οὐδὲν οὐδαμῇ τῷ διαλυθέντι κακὸν οὐδὲ λυπηρόν ἐστιν, οἶδ’ ὅτι κωλύει σε πιστεύειν ὁ πάτριοσ λόγοσ καὶ τὰ μυστικὰ σύμβολα τῶν περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον ὀργιασμῶν, ἃ σύνισμεν ἀλλήλοισ οἱ κοινωνοῦντεσ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 10 1:1)
  • ἐνταῦθα τὸν Ὀρφέα διατρῖψαί φησι τὸν Κίκονα, ἄνδρα γόητα, ἀπὸ μουσικῆσ ἅμα καὶ μαντικῆσ καὶ τῶν περὶ τὰσ τελετὰσ ὀργιασμῶν ἀγυρτεύοντα τὸ πρῶτον, εἶτ’ ἤδη καὶ μειζόνων ἀξιοῦντα ἑαυτὸν καὶ ὄχλον καὶ δύναμιν κατασκευαζόμενον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter fragments 44:3)

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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