oratio obliqua

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Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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)

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