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).
双语例句
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。
来自柯林斯例句
2. I spoke privately to the candidate after the oral.
口试后，我私下里与那位考生谈了谈。
来自柯林斯例句
3. a test of both oral and written French
法语口试和笔试
来自《权威词典》
4. No oral test will be required for admission to that university.
上那所大学不必经过口试.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. Students of English should have a lot of oral drills.
