oral

英 ['ɔːr(ə)l] 美 ['ɔrəl]

解释

※ 提供单词"oral"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

oral 口头的

来自拉丁语os的所有格形式oris,嘴，来自PIE*os,嘴，词源同orator,osculate.

oral: oral: [17] Oral comes from Latin ōs ‘mouth’. This went back to a prehistoric Indo-European *ōs- or *ōus-, which also produced Sanskrit ās-, ‘mouth’ and Old Norse óss ‘mouth of a river’. Its other contributions to English include orifice [16] (etymologically ‘forming a mouth’), oscillate, osculate ‘kiss’ [17], and usher.
=> orifice, oscillate, osculate, usher
oral (adj.): 1620s, from Late Latin oralis, from Latin os (genitive oris) "mouth, opening, face, entrance," from PIE *os- "mouth" (cognates: Sanskrit asan "mouth," asyam "mouth, opening," Avestan ah-, Hittite aish, Middle Irish a "mouth," Old Norse oss "mouth of a river," Old English or "beginning, origin, front"). Psychological meaning "of the mouth as the focus of infantile sexual energy" (as in oral fixation) is from 1910. The sexual sense is first recorded 1948, in Kinsey. As a noun, "oral examination," attested from 1876. Related: Orally (c. 1600); orality. Os was the usual word for "mouth" in Latin, but as the vowel distinction was lost it became similar in sound to os "bone" (see osseous). Thus bucca, originally "cheek" but used colloquial as "mouth," because the usual word for "mouth" (see bouche).

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1. The story of King Arthur became part of oral tradition.: 亚瑟王的故事成为口头传说的一部分。

4. No oral test will be required for admission to that university.: 上那所大学不必经过口试.