stillborn

See also: still-born

English

Alternative forms

still-born

Etymology

First attested 1597, from English still +‎ born

Adjective

stillborn (not comparable)

Dead at birth.
Synonym: (dated, rare) deadborn
Antonym: (archaic) quickborn
- 1768, Horace Walpole, "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III,"
  Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.
- 1978, Holy Bible (New International Version), Job 3:16,
  Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
(figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
Synonym: unfruitful
- 1859, Charles Reade, Love Me Little, Love Me Long, ch. 11,
  This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.
- 1915, William MacLeod Raine, The Highgrader, ch. 18,
  His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.

Translations

dead at birth

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: ölü doğulmuş
Bulgarian: мъртвороден (mǎrtvoroden)
Catalan: nascut mort m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 死胎的 (zh) (sǐtāi de), 死產的／死产的 (zh) (sǐchǎn de)
Czech: mrtvorozený m
Dutch: doodgeboren (nl)
Esperanto: mortnaskita
Finnish: kuolleena syntynyt
French: mort-né (fr) m
German: totgeboren (de)
Greek: θνησιγενής (el) (thnisigenís), νεκρογέννητος (el) m (nekrogénnitos)
Hungarian: halva született
Icelandic: andvanafæddur m
Japanese: 死産の (ja) (しざんの, shizan no)
Norman: mort-né
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dødfødt
Nynorsk: dødfødd
Old English: dēadboren
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: dootjebuaren
Portuguese: natimorto m
Russian: мертворождённый (ru) (mertvoroždjónnyj)
Scots: kebbit (of a lamb)
Slovene: mrtvorojen m
Spanish: nacido muerto, mortinato, natimorto m
Swedish: dödfödd (sv) c
Tagalog: lungal
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: טויט געבוירן‎ (toyt geboyrn)

ignored, without influence, unsuccessful, abortive

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: doodgeboren (nl)
Finnish: epäonnistunut (fi)
Greek: θνησιγενής (el) (thnisigenís)
Norwegian: dødfødt
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Slovene: mrtvorojen m
Swedish: dödfödd (sv) c
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} mort-né (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} morte-née f
Italian: ^{(please verify)} nato morto (it) m, ^{(please verify)} nata morta f
Latin: ^{(please verify)} natus mortuus m, ^{(please verify)} nata mortua f, ^{(please verify)} abortivus m, ^{(please verify)} abortiva f
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} mrtvorođen, ^{(please verify)} mrtvorođenče (sh)
Slovene: ^{(please verify)} mrtvorojen
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} nato muerto m, ^{(please verify)} nata muerta f

Noun

stillborn (plural stillborns)

A baby that is born dead.
- 2016, Alok Sharma, A Practical Guide to Third Trimester of Pregnancy & Puerperium
  About 35% of stillborns are discovered to have major structural anomalies by chromosomal studies and autopsy findings.

Translations

stillborn

German: Totgeburt (de) f
Portuguese natimorto m, natimorta f