Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe ability to speak, and to understand spoken language · A measure of this ability
From oral + -cy, by analogy with literacy. Coined by the British education researcher Andrew Wilkinson in 1965.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "suffix",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "oral",
"3": "cy"
},
"expansion": "oral + -cy"
}
],
"links": [
[
"oral",
"oral#English"
],
[
"-cy",
"-cy#English"
],
[
"literacy",
"literacy#English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"The ability to speak, and to understand spoken language",
"A measure of this ability"
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"countable"
],
"recordId": "23eb8101c23ff174f9077706621aa3983306a048bbfd687a6f1e2cc0cb2e811f",
"rawRecordSha256": "0819c74c30d2bd4a02ac3e4da0a9ddf864fc08ed7c2b008fee5bf5f79d9b206a",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 1949820
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}