oratio obliqua

English

Alternative forms

• orat. obliq. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Latin ōrātiō ("speech, discourse, language") and oblīquus ("sidelong, slanting, awry, oblique").

Noun

oratio obliqua (plural orationes obliquae)

1. (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)

Related terms

• oratio directa