英文词源
- orgy
- orgy: [16] Orgy comes ultimately from Greek órgia (like English organ, a descendant of the Indo-European base *worg- ‘work’), which denoted ‘religious revels involving dancing, singing, getting drunk, and having sex’. It was a plural noun, and passed into English via Latin orgia and French orgies as orgies. This was very much a historical term, denoting the goings-on in ancient Greece, but in the 18th century it was singularized to orgy, and used for any ‘copulatory revelry’.
=> organ, work - orgy (n.)
- 1560s, orgies (plural) "secret rites in the worship of certain Greek and Roman gods," especially Dionysus, from Middle French orgies (c. 1500, from Latin orgia), and directly from Greek orgia (plural) "secret rites," especially those of Bacchus, from PIE root *werg- "to do" (see organ). The singular, orgy, was first used in English 1660s for the extended sense of "any licentious revelry." OED says of the ancient rites that they were "celebrated with extravagant dancing, singing, drinking, etc.," which gives "etc." quite a workout.
中文词源
orgy（狂欢放荡）：古代罗马人崇拜酒神的仪式
英语单词orgy表 示“狂欢、放荡”，尤其是“性狂欢、群体淫乱”。它来源于古希腊人、罗马人对酒神的一种崇拜仪式。该词来源于希腊语orgia，意为“秘密仪式”，原本指 的是任何一种崇拜神灵的仪式，后来专指崇拜酒神的仪式，其核心内容包括狂欢放荡的舞蹈、歌唱和豪饮，以及在亢奋中胡乱砍杀献祭的牲畜。由于酒神崇拜仪式的 这种狂欢放荡特点，orgy一词逐渐发展出贬义含义，用来表示那种集体狂欢或淫乱活动。
orgy：['ɔːdʒɪ] n.狂欢，放荡
orgie：['ɔ:dʒi] n.纵酒狂欢，放荡
orgiastic：[ɔːdʒɪ'æstɪk] adj.狂欢的，纵欲的
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：orgy 词源，orgy 含义。
orgy：狂欢会
来自希腊语orgia,神秘仪式，尤指祭祀酒神Bacchus的仪式，来自PIE*werg,工作，做工，举行仪式，词源同organ,work.因在这种仪式上通常会大量饮酒，通常演变成狂欢会。