orifice

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin orificium (“an opening, literally the making of a mouth”), compound of os (“mouth”) + facio (“to make”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

orifice (plural orifices)

1. A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.

   the orifice of an artery or vein;   the orifice of a wound;   the vagina and other orifices

Translations

mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe

• Armenian: բացվածք (hy) (bacʻvackʻ), անցք (hy) (ancʻkʻ), ծակ (hy) (cak)
• Bulgarian: отвор (bg) m (otvor), отверстие (bg) n (otverstie), устие (bg) n (ustie), проход (bg) m (prohod), дюза (bg) f (dyuza), жигльор (bg) m (zhiglyor), щуцер (bg) m (shtutser)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孔 (zh) (kǒng), 口 (zh) (kǒu), 洞 (zh) (dòng), 開口／开口 (zh) (kāi kǒu)

• Finnish: aukko (1), reikä (1)
• French: orifice (fr) m
• German: Öffnung f (1)
• Icelandic: (an opening) op (is) n, (a mouth) munnur (is) m
• Indonesian: mulut (id)
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• Italian: orifizio (it) m, orificio m
• Japanese: 口 (ja) (くち, kuchi), 開口部 (かいこうぶ, kaikōbu), 孔 (ja) (あな, ana)
• Luxembourgish: Ëffnung f
• Maori: wenewene (of a wound), pūaha, mānawanawa
• Portuguese: orifício (pt) m
• Russian: отве́рстие (ru) n (otvérstije)
• Scottish Gaelic: beul m, fosgladh m
• Swedish: öppning (sv) c, mynning (sv) c
• Tagalog: bukasan

orifice (see anus etc. for specific body cavities) — see hole

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin orificium.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [ɔ.ʁi.fis]
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Noun

orifice m (plural orifices)

1. an orifice

Further reading

• “orifice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.