orifice

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”).

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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

From Late Latin orificium.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁi.fis/

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• Rhymes: -is

orifice m (plural orifices)

1. an orifice

• “orifice” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).