abortio Latin · revision 9139

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [aˈbɔr.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [aˈbɔr.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abortiō''' ''f'' (genitive abortiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[aborior]] “to pass away; to miscarry” with the suffix [[-tiō]], from [[ab-]] and [[orior]] “to rise, be born”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus' ''Truculentus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a miscarriage, and the procuring of a miscarriage, an abortion, as in Plautus, Cicero's ''Pro Cluentio'' and the Digest.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ It gave [[en|abortion]] in the 1540s, “the expulsion of the fetus before it is viable”, of deliberate and unintended miscarriages alike.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – English ''abortion'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|miscarriage]]; an [[m|en|abortion]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aborior]]

+ * [[abortus]]

+ * [[orior]]

+ * [[en|abortion]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A Late Latin verb ''abortiō'' “to miscarry” is found in the Vulgate.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

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