oratio obliqua

Etymology
From ōrātiō ("speech, discourse, language") and oblīquus ("sidelong, slanting, awry, oblique").

Noun

 * 1)  indirect speech/indirect statements
 * 2) * That'-clauses in indirect speech or oratio obliqua' are of course cases where I report what someone else or myself elsewhen or elsewhere did say [...]. - "How To Do Things With Words" (1962) by JL Austin (OUP paperback edition, 70-71)