名詞 fornication:

1. voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other
2. extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations
   同義詞：adultery, criminal conversation

for.ni.ca.tion

n.（名詞）
Sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other.
私通，通奸：并非夫妻的兩人進行的性交

<注釋>The wordfornication had a lowly beginning suitable to what has long been the low moral status of the word. The Latin wordfornix, from which fornic3tiô, the ancestor offornication, is derived, meant .a vault, an arch.. The term also referred to a vaulted cellar or similar place where prostitutes plied their trade.This sense offornix in Late Latin yielded the verb fornic3ro, .to commit fornication,. from which is derivedfornic3tiô, .whoredom, fornication.. Our word is first recorded in Middle English about 303.
單詞fornication 開始時用作指道德水準(zhǔn)低的含義。 拉丁語中fornix 一詞源自于單詞 fornicatio， fornication 一詞的前身，詞義為.拱頂，穹隆.。 此詞也指一個拱頂室或類似結(jié)構(gòu)的妓院。后期拉丁語中fornix 的這種含義衍生出動詞 fornicario， 來表示.私通.的含義， 又由此衍生而來fornicari ，表示.賣淫，通奸。. 此詞于303年左右首次出現(xiàn)于中世紀(jì)英語中