abort
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbɔːt/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈbɔɹt/
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Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“come into being”).
Noun
abort (plural aborts)
- (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17th century.]
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vi:
- In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends.
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- (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
- (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.
- (computing) The function used to abort a process.
- (computing) An event involving the abort of a process.
- We've had three aborts over the last two days.
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Etymology 2
From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).
Verb
abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)
- (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
- 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical Diseases of the Kidney, page 458:
- Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic.
- 1983, M. D. Bennett, Chromosomes Today: Volume 8 Proceedings of the Eighth International Chromosome Conference, page 346:
- In the study group ll patients aborted spontaneously between the 17th and 20th gestational week and 8 patients aborted after the 21st week.
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- (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. [Attested since at least the 19th century.]
- (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
- (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
- (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
- (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
- (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
- (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
Derived terms
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References
- abort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
- “abort” in "Systems and software engineering—vocabulary", ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010(E), 15 December 2010, ISBN 978-0-7381-6205-8, DOI 10.1109/IEEESTD.2010.5733835
Cebuano
Etymology
From English abort, from Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧bort
Crimean Tatar
Declension
nominative | abort |
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genitive | abortnıñ |
dative | abortqa |
accusative | abortnı |
locative | abortta |
ablative | aborttan |
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abʌɐ̯t/
- Rhymes: -ʌɐ̯t
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | abort | aborten | aborter | aborterne |
genitive | aborts | abortens | aborters | aborternes |
Estonian
Noun
abort (genitive abordi, partitive aborti)
- abortion
- Mu tüdruk tahab aborti teha.
- My girl wants an abortion.
- miscarriage
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | abort | abordid |
genitive | abordi | abortide |
partitive | aborti | aborte / abortisid |
illative | aborti / abordisse | abortidesse |
inessive | abordis | abortides |
elative | abordist | abortidest |
allative | abordile | abortidele |
adessive | abordil | abortidel |
ablative | abordilt | abortidelt |
translative | abordiks | abortideks |
terminative | abordini | abortideni |
essive | abordina | abortidena |
abessive | abordita | abortideta |
comitative | abordiga | abortidega |
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑˈbɔɾt/, [ɑˈbɔʈː]
- Rhymes: -ɔʈ
Noun
abort m (definite singular aborten, indefinite plural aborter, definite plural abortene)
- an abortion (deliberate termination of a pregnancy)
Derived terms
- spontan abort, spontanabort
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
abort m (definite singular aborten, indefinite plural abortar, definite plural abortane)
- an abortion (deliberate termination of a pregnancy)
Derived terms
- spontan abort, spontanabort
Portuguese
Swedish
Noun
abort c
- (obsolete) an abort, a miscarriage
- abort, abortion (about the process of aborting a pregnancy)
Declension
Declension of abort | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | abort | aborten | aborter | aborterna |
Genitive | aborts | abortens | aborters | aborternas |
References
- abort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)