| 单词 | fornication |
| 释义 | fornication[,fɒ:ni'keiʃən]n. 通奸, 乱伦【医】 非法性交 fornication for.ni.ca.tion AHD: [fôr”n¹-k³“sh…n] D.J. [7f%8n!6ke!.*n]K.K. [7f%rn!6ke.*n]n.（名词）Sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other.私通，通奸：并非夫妻的两人进行的性交注释:The wordfornication had a lowly beginning suitable to what has long been the low moral status of the word. The Latin wordfornix, from which fornic³ti½, the ancestor offornication, is derived, meant “a vault, an arch.” The term also referred to a vaulted cellar or similar place where prostitutes plied their trade.This sense offornix in Late Latin yielded the verb fornic³r&9{º,} “to commit fornication,” from which is derivedfornic³ti½, “whoredom, fornication.” Our word is first recorded in Middle English about 1303.单词fornication 开始时用作指道德水准低的含义。 拉丁语中fornix 一词源自于单词 fornicatio， fornication 一词的前身，词义为“拱顶，穹隆”。 此词也指一个拱顶室或类似结构的妓院。后期拉丁语中fornix 的这种含义衍生出动词 fornicario， 来表示“私通”的含义， 又由此衍生而来fornicari ，表示“卖淫，通奸。” 此词于1303年左右首次出现于中世纪英语中 |
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