See orature on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "oral",
"3": "literature"
},
"expansion": "Blend of oral + literature",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Blend of oral + literature, said to have been coined by the Ugandan linguist and literary theorist Pio Zirimu (died 1977): see the 1972 quotation.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "oratures",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "orature (countable and uncountable, plural oratures)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ora‧ture"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English blends",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "68 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "69 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[1972, Wa Thiong’o [i.e., Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o], Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics, London, Ibadan, Nigeria: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 70:",
"text": "It is because of this that Mr Pio Zirimu, a Ugandan linguist and literary critic, has coined the word ‘orature’.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1978, Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, Enugu, Nigeria: Okike Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "The decolonization of the African mind and imaginagion is a job that must be done. It is a job that requires that our perceptions, our imaginations, and our literary devices be fertilized by the past literatures and oratures of the Pan-African world, and by the literatures and oratures of other lands besides Europe.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1990, Leteipa Ole Sunkuli, Simon Okumba Miruka, “Introduction”, in A Dictionary of Oral Literature, Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda: East African Educational Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page ix:",
"text": "As it were, Literature is often seen as a branch of Language Arts. Orature is a branch of Literature and hence inevitably falls within Language especially in as far as Language is basically oral. […] Inevitably, a good stock of the words within Orature are taken from written Literature. The text hopes to establish the interrelationship of these branches of Literature and through definition to show the specific application of these terms in Orature.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Gay [Alden] Wilentz, Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora), Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "In the chapter on Aidoo, I note that certain genres of the orature, particularly the dilemma tales, have unresolved endings which call for community response; this is evident in the ending of Song as well.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Jace Weaver, “Native American Literatures and Communitism”, in That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 23:",
"text": "There is much at work in this discussion of canon and orature. As a starting point, it is worth noting that the academic discipline of English developed in the colonial era, and it should be equally patent that Eurocentric attempts to define a canon since the 19th century have been \"less a statement of the superiority of the Western tradition than a vital, active instrument of Western hegemony.\" Limiting consideration or admission to the canon to orature is a way of continuing colonialism. It once again keeps American Indians from entering the 20th century and denies to Native literary artists who choose other media any legitimate or \"authentic\" Native identity.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Mareike Neuhaus, “What’s in a Frame?: The Significance of Relational World Bundles in Louise Bernice Halfe’s Blue Marrow”, in Susan Gingell, Wendy Roy, editors, Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 221:",
"text": "Blue Marrow by the Cree poet Louise Bernice Halfe has an intriguing textual history. […] Of the changes made to the revised edition, the completely rewritten narrative frame is particularly interesting, especially given the relevance of opening and closing frames in Aboriginal oratures and in oral traditions around the world more generally[…].",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015 April, Akíntúndé Akínyẹmí, “Introduction”, in Orature and Yorùbá Riddles, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1:",
"text": "This book takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the so-called minor genres of African orature—riddles.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The oral equivalent of literature: a collection of traditional folk songs, stories, etc., that is communicated orally rather than in writing."
],
"id": "en-orature-en-noun-lJfeMUe9",
"links": [
[
"oral",
"oral"
],
[
"equivalent",
"equivalent#Noun"
],
[
"literature",
"literature"
],
[
"collection",
"collection"
],
[
"traditional",
"traditional"
],
[
"folk",
"folk#Adjective"
],
[
"song",
"song"
],
[
"stories",
"story"
],
[
"communicate",
"communicate"
],
[
"orally",
"orally"
],
[
"writing",
"writing#Noun"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "oral literature"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "oral equivalent of literature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "orature"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "oral equivalent of literature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Oralliteratur"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɒɹətʃə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔː-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-orature.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɹət͡ʃɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɹəˌt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ˌt(j)ʊ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Pio Zirimu"
],
"word": "orature"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sco",
"3": "oratur"
},
"expansion": "Scots oratur",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "oritore"
},
"expansion": "Middle English oritore",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "oratur"
},
"expansion": "Old French oratur",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "oratoire",
"3": "",
"4": "oratory; oratorical"
},
"expansion": "French oratoire (“oratory; oratorical”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "ōrātōrium"
},
"expansion": "Latin ōrātōrium",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁óh₃s",
"4": "",
"5": "mouth"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Scots oratur, orature, a variant of oratour, oritour, from Middle English oritore, a variant of ōrātōrī, ōrātōrīe (“room or other place for prayer or private study; chapel, church, temple; shrine”), from Old French oratur, orator, oratore, oratori, oratour (modern French oratoire (“oratory; oratorical”)), from Latin ōrātōrium, from ōrātōrius (“oratorical”), from ōrātor (“orator, speaker”) (from ōrō (“to deliver a speech, orate”), from ōs (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "oratures",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "orature (plural oratures)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ora‧ture"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "a small room or chapel used for prayer and worship, or for private study; an oratory",
"word": "oratour"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with redundant target parameters",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant target parameters",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scottish English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Christianity",
"orig": "en:Christianity",
"parents": [
"Abrahamism",
"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "16th century, Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, edited by John Graham Dalyell, The Cronicles of Scotland, … Published from Several Old Manuscripts, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1814, →OCLC, footnote, page 128:",
"text": "This bishop was ane wyse and godlie man, and answered the king in this maner, as after follows, saying, “Sir, I beseech your Grace, that ye take a little meat to refresh you, and I will passe to my orature and pray to God for you, and the commonwealth of this realme and cuntrie.[”]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1793, [Robert Henryson], “[Troilus & Creseide.] Testament of Faire Creseide.”, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, [...] To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, […], →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume I (Containing Chaucer, Surrey, Wyatt & Sackville), London: Printed for Iohn & Arthur Arch, […]; and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Co. […], 1795, →OCLC, page 409:",
"text": "Yet nertheleſſe within mine orature / I ſtode, whan Titan had his bemis bright / Withdrawin doun, and ſcylid undir cure, / And faire Venus the beaute of the night, / Upraiſe, and ſette unto the weſte ful right […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1804, William Godwin, “Sequel to Troilus and Creseide by Robert Henryson.—Tragedy of Shakepear on the Subject.”, in Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet: […] In Four Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed by T[homas] Davison, […]; for Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, pages 489–490:",
"text": "The author [of the poem Testament of Faire Creseide, Robert Henryson] has conceived in a very poetical manner his description of the season in which he supposes himself to have written this dolorous tragedy. The sun was in Aries; his setting was ushered in with furious storms of hail; the cold was biting and intense; and the poet sat in a solitary little building which he calls his \"orature.\" [footnote: oratory.]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Variant of oratour (“a small room or chapel used for prayer and worship, or for private study; an oratory”)."
],
"id": "en-orature-en-noun-8I7QYOgH",
"links": [
[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"oratour",
"oratour#English"
],
[
"small",
"small"
],
[
"room",
"room#Noun"
],
[
"chapel",
"chapel"
],
[
"prayer",
"prayer"
],
[
"worship",
"worship#Noun"
],
[
"private",
"private#Adjective"
],
[
"study",
"study#Noun"
],
[
"oratory",
"oratory"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland, chiefly Christianity, archaic) Variant of oratour (“a small room or chapel used for prayer and worship, or for private study; an oratory”)."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"archaic"
],
"topics": [
"Christianity"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɒɹətʃə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔː-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-orature.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɹət͡ʃɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɹəˌt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ˌt(j)ʊ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "orature"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "ōrātūre",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "participle form",
"head": "ōrātūre"
},
"expansion": "ōrātūre",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "ōrātūrus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"vocative masculine singular of ōrātūrus"
],
"id": "en-orature-la-verb-ZwNgfQZX",
"links": [
[
"ōrātūrus",
"oraturus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"participle",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "orature"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "orature",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "oratour"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of oratour"
],
"id": "en-orature-enm-noun-2AzsrIMv",
"links": [
[
"oratour",
"oratour#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "orature"
}
{
"categories": [
"English blends",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Scots",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "oral",
"3": "literature"
},
"expansion": "Blend of oral + literature",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Blend of oral + literature, said to have been coined by the Ugandan linguist and literary theorist Pio Zirimu (died 1977): see the 1972 quotation.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "oratures",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "orature (countable and uncountable, plural oratures)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ora‧ture"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[1972, Wa Thiong’o [i.e., Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o], Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics, London, Ibadan, Nigeria: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 70:",
"text": "It is because of this that Mr Pio Zirimu, a Ugandan linguist and literary critic, has coined the word ‘orature’.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1978, Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, Enugu, Nigeria: Okike Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "The decolonization of the African mind and imaginagion is a job that must be done. It is a job that requires that our perceptions, our imaginations, and our literary devices be fertilized by the past literatures and oratures of the Pan-African world, and by the literatures and oratures of other lands besides Europe.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1990, Leteipa Ole Sunkuli, Simon Okumba Miruka, “Introduction”, in A Dictionary of Oral Literature, Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda: East African Educational Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page ix:",
"text": "As it were, Literature is often seen as a branch of Language Arts. Orature is a branch of Literature and hence inevitably falls within Language especially in as far as Language is basically oral. […] Inevitably, a good stock of the words within Orature are taken from written Literature. The text hopes to establish the interrelationship of these branches of Literature and through definition to show the specific application of these terms in Orature.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Gay [Alden] Wilentz, Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora), Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "In the chapter on Aidoo, I note that certain genres of the orature, particularly the dilemma tales, have unresolved endings which call for community response; this is evident in the ending of Song as well.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Jace Weaver, “Native American Literatures and Communitism”, in That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 23:",
"text": "There is much at work in this discussion of canon and orature. As a starting point, it is worth noting that the academic discipline of English developed in the colonial era, and it should be equally patent that Eurocentric attempts to define a canon since the 19th century have been \"less a statement of the superiority of the Western tradition than a vital, active instrument of Western hegemony.\" Limiting consideration or admission to the canon to orature is a way of continuing colonialism. It once again keeps American Indians from entering the 20th century and denies to Native literary artists who choose other media any legitimate or \"authentic\" Native identity.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Mareike Neuhaus, “What’s in a Frame?: The Significance of Relational World Bundles in Louise Bernice Halfe’s Blue Marrow”, in Susan Gingell, Wendy Roy, editors, Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 221:",
"text": "Blue Marrow by the Cree poet Louise Bernice Halfe has an intriguing textual history. […] Of the changes made to the revised edition, the completely rewritten narrative frame is particularly interesting, especially given the relevance of opening and closing frames in Aboriginal oratures and in oral traditions around the world more generally[…].",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015 April, Akíntúndé Akínyẹmí, “Introduction”, in Orature and Yorùbá Riddles, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1:",
"text": "This book takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the so-called minor genres of African orature—riddles.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The oral equivalent of literature: a collection of traditional folk songs, stories, etc., that is communicated orally rather than in writing."
],
"links": [
[
"oral",
"oral"
],
[
"equivalent",
"equivalent#Noun"
],
[
"literature",
"literature"
],
[
"collection",
"collection"
],
[
"traditional",
"traditional"
],
[
"folk",
"folk#Adjective"
],
[
"song",
"song"
],
[
"stories",
"story"
],
[
"communicate",
"communicate"
],
[
"orally",
"orally"
],
[
"writing",
"writing#Noun"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "oral literature"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɒɹətʃə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔː-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-orature.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɹət͡ʃɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɹəˌt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ˌt(j)ʊ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "oral equivalent of literature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "orature"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "oral equivalent of literature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Oralliteratur"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Pio Zirimu"
],
"word": "orature"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Scots",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sco",
"3": "oratur"
},
"expansion": "Scots oratur",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "oritore"
},
"expansion": "Middle English oritore",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "oratur"
},
"expansion": "Old French oratur",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "oratoire",
"3": "",
"4": "oratory; oratorical"
},
"expansion": "French oratoire (“oratory; oratorical”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "ōrātōrium"
},
"expansion": "Latin ōrātōrium",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁óh₃s",
"4": "",
"5": "mouth"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Scots oratur, orature, a variant of oratour, oritour, from Middle English oritore, a variant of ōrātōrī, ōrātōrīe (“room or other place for prayer or private study; chapel, church, temple; shrine”), from Old French oratur, orator, oratore, oratori, oratour (modern French oratoire (“oratory; oratorical”)), from Latin ōrātōrium, from ōrātōrius (“oratorical”), from ōrātor (“orator, speaker”) (from ōrō (“to deliver a speech, orate”), from ōs (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "oratures",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "orature (plural oratures)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ora‧ture"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "a small room or chapel used for prayer and worship, or for private study; an oratory",
"word": "oratour"
}
],
"categories": [
"English links with redundant target parameters",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Scottish English",
"en:Christianity"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "16th century, Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, edited by John Graham Dalyell, The Cronicles of Scotland, … Published from Several Old Manuscripts, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1814, →OCLC, footnote, page 128:",
"text": "This bishop was ane wyse and godlie man, and answered the king in this maner, as after follows, saying, “Sir, I beseech your Grace, that ye take a little meat to refresh you, and I will passe to my orature and pray to God for you, and the commonwealth of this realme and cuntrie.[”]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1793, [Robert Henryson], “[Troilus & Creseide.] Testament of Faire Creseide.”, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, [...] To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, […], →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume I (Containing Chaucer, Surrey, Wyatt & Sackville), London: Printed for Iohn & Arthur Arch, […]; and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Co. […], 1795, →OCLC, page 409:",
"text": "Yet nertheleſſe within mine orature / I ſtode, whan Titan had his bemis bright / Withdrawin doun, and ſcylid undir cure, / And faire Venus the beaute of the night, / Upraiſe, and ſette unto the weſte ful right […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1804, William Godwin, “Sequel to Troilus and Creseide by Robert Henryson.—Tragedy of Shakepear on the Subject.”, in Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet: […] In Four Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed by T[homas] Davison, […]; for Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, pages 489–490:",
"text": "The author [of the poem Testament of Faire Creseide, Robert Henryson] has conceived in a very poetical manner his description of the season in which he supposes himself to have written this dolorous tragedy. The sun was in Aries; his setting was ushered in with furious storms of hail; the cold was biting and intense; and the poet sat in a solitary little building which he calls his \"orature.\" [footnote: oratory.]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Variant of oratour (“a small room or chapel used for prayer and worship, or for private study; an oratory”)."
],
"links": [
[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"oratour",
"oratour#English"
],
[
"small",
"small"
],
[
"room",
"room#Noun"
],
[
"chapel",
"chapel"
],
[
"prayer",
"prayer"
],
[
"worship",
"worship#Noun"
],
[
"private",
"private#Adjective"
],
[
"study",
"study#Noun"
],
[
"oratory",
"oratory"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland, chiefly Christianity, archaic) Variant of oratour (“a small room or chapel used for prayer and worship, or for private study; an oratory”)."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"archaic"
],
"topics": [
"Christianity"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɒɹətʃə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔː-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-orature.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-orature.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɹət͡ʃɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔɹəˌt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ˌt(j)ʊ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "orature"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "ōrātūre",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "participle form",
"head": "ōrātūre"
},
"expansion": "ōrātūre",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin participle forms",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "ōrātūrus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"vocative masculine singular of ōrātūrus"
],
"links": [
[
"ōrātūrus",
"oraturus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"participle",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "orature"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "orature",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "oratour"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of oratour"
],
"links": [
[
"oratour",
"oratour#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "orature"
}
Download raw JSONL data for orature meaning in All languages combined (13.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.