英语词汇fornication的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

fornication. Fornication was one of the words Noah Webster tried to bowdlerize from the Bible in 1833. He substituted lewdness for it, but fornication remained popular in love and language. The word comes from the Latin fornix, for “an arch or vault.” Since brothels in ancient Rome were often in caves or under arches (not always: they were sometimes even located in baker’s ovens), fornix became the Latin for a brothel, which eventually gave us the English word fornicate. Fornicate strictly means “voluntary sexual intercourse between unmarried men and women,” but it more generally means the four-letter word nobody wants to print.

词汇	fornication
词源	fornication. Fornication was one of the words Noah Webster tried to bowdlerize from the Bible in 1833. He substituted lewdness for it, but fornication remained popular in love and language. The word comes from the Latin fornix, for “an arch or vault.” Since brothels in ancient Rome were often in caves or under arches (not always: they were sometimes even located in baker’s ovens), fornix became the Latin for a brothel, which eventually gave us the English word fornicate. Fornicate strictly means “voluntary sexual intercourse between unmarried men and women,” but it more generally means the four-letter word nobody wants to print.
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