• adj. 口頭的，口述的
• n. 口試
• n. (Oral)人名；(土)奧拉爾

來自拉丁語os的所有格形式oris,嘴，來自PIE*os,嘴，詞源同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).

1. The story of King Arthur became part of oral tradition.

亞瑟王的故事成為口頭傳說的一部分。

來自柯林斯例句

2. I spoke privately to the candidate after the oral.

口試后，我私下里與那位考生談了談。

來自柯林斯例句

3. a test of both oral and written French

法語口試和筆試

來自《權威詞典》

4. No oral test will be required for admission to that university.

上那所大學不必經過口試.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. Students of English should have a lot of oral drills.

學英語的學生應多做口頭練習.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》