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Oral Latin Os Mouth Sanskrit Norse English Oscillate

正面 3906.oral
英 ['ɔːr(ə)l]美 ['ɔrəl]

背面
释义:
adj. 口头的,口述的n. 口试n. (Oral)人名;(土)奥拉尔
例句:
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。

1. lift[美]电梯,lift 在英国是把一个人拔上去的感觉; go in up 上楼; go in down 下楼.
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.
oraloral: [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, usheroral (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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