abortivus
Latin
Etymology
From aborior (“to pass away”) + -īvus., from ab (“from, away from”) + orior (“rise, get up; appear”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.borˈtiː.u̯us/, [äbɔrˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.borˈti.vus/, [äborˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective
abortīvus (feminine abortīva, neuter abortīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of or pertaining to a premature delivery, miscarriage, or abortion.
- Of that which causes an abortion or miscarriage.
- born prematurely
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | abortīvus | abortīva | abortīvum | abortīvī | abortīvae | abortīva | |
| Genitive | abortīvī | abortīvae | abortīvī | abortīvōrum | abortīvārum | abortīvōrum | |
| Dative | abortīvō | abortīvō | abortīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | abortīvum | abortīvam | abortīvum | abortīvōs | abortīvās | abortīva | |
| Ablative | abortīvō | abortīvā | abortīvō | abortīvīs | |||
| Vocative | abortīve | abortīva | abortīvum | abortīvī | abortīvae | abortīva | |
Derived terms
- abortīvum
Related terms
- aborior
- aborīscor
- aborsus
- abortiō
- abortō
- abortum
- abortus
Descendants
- Catalan: abortiu
- → English: abortive
- French: abortif
- → Romanian: abortiv
- → German: abortiv
- Italian: abortivo
- → Norwegian Bokmål: abortiv
- Portuguese: abortivo
References
- “abortivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abortivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abortivus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- abortivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette