orifice

orifice

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒɹɪfɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹəfɪs/

• Audio (US)

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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) (bacʿvackʿ), անցք (hy) (ancʿkʿ), ծակ (hy) (cak) Bulgarian: отвор (bg) m (otvor), отверстие (bg) n (otverstie), устие (bg) n (ustie), проход (bg) m (prohod), дюза (bg) f (djuza), жигльор (bg) m (žigljor), щуцер (bg) m (štucer) Catalan: orifici (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 孔 (zh) (kǒng), 口 (zh) (kǒu), 洞 (zh) (dòng), 開口／开口 (zh) (kāi kǒu) Danish: åbning c Faroese: op n, opilsi Finnish: aukko (fi), reikä (fi) French: orifice (fr) m German: Öffnung (de) f Icelandic: (an opening) op (is) n, (a mouth) munnur (is) m Indonesian: mulut (id) Irish: poll m, oscailt f, béal (ga) m 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 Malayalam: രന്ധ്രം (ml) (randhraṃ) Maori: wenewene (of a wound), pūaha, mānawanawa Portuguese: orifício (pt) m Russian: отве́рстие (ru) n (otvérstije) Scottish Gaelic: beul m, fosgladh m Spanish: orificio (es) 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 Late Latin orificium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁi.fis/

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• Rhymes: -is

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.