fornication: [13] Latin fornix denoted an ‘arch’ or ‘vault’, and hence came to be used in the late republican period for the sort of vaulted underground dwellings where the dregs of Roman society – tramps, prostitutes, petty criminals, etc – lived. Early Christian writers homed in on the prostitutes, and employed the term with the specific meaning ‘brothel’, whence the verb fornicārī ‘have illicit sexual intercourse’ and its derivative fornicatiō, source of English fornication.
fornication (n.)
c. 1300, from Old French fornicacion "fornication, lewdness; prostitution; idolatry" (12c.), from Late Latin fornicationem (nominative fornicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of fornicari "to fornicate," from Latin fornix (genitive fornicis) "brothel" (Juvenal, Horace), originally "arch, vaulted chamber, a vaulted opening, a covered way," probably an extension, based on appearance, from a source akin to fornus "brick oven of arched or domed shape" (see furnace). Strictly, "voluntary sex between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman;" extended in the Bible to adultery. The sense extension in Latin is perhaps because Roman prostitutes commonly solicited from under the arches of certain buildings.
雙語例句
1. Fornication is a crime in some American states.
在美國的一些州，通奸屬于犯罪。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Public fornication won't look good on my resume.
公共場合做愛會毀了我的簡歷的.
來自電影對白
3. The plaqued Fornication Under Consent of the King ( F . U . C . K . ).
那一塊板上面寫的是“在國王的同意下可以進行性行為”.
來自互聯網
4. Fornication veils the morning just like carnage veils the day.
屠殺之血蔽日天**之穢染晨曦.
來自互聯網
5. But you have committed fornication with many lovers. et return to Me, declares Jehovah.