oratio obliqua
English
editAlternative forms
edit- orat. obliq. (abbreviation)
Etymology
editFrom Latin ōrātiō ("speech, discourse, language") and oblīquus ("sidelong, slanting, awry, oblique").
Noun
editoratio obliqua (plural orationes obliquae)
- (grammar) indirect speech/indirect statements
- That'-clauses in indirect speech or oratio obliqua' are of course cases where I report what someone else or myself elsewhen or elsewhere did say [...]. - "How To Do Things With Words" (1962) by JL Austin (OUP paperback edition, 70-71)