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abort

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“to come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

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abort (plural aborts)

  1. (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.
  2. (computing) The function used to abort a process.
  3. (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
    We've had three aborts over the last two days.
  4. (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
  5. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17th century.]
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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.
Descendants
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  • → Polish: abort
  • → Portuguese: abort
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Etymology 2

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    From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

    Verb

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    abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)

    1. (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.
    2. (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. [Attested since at least the 19th century.]
      • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 236:
        "Of course, you can't abort yourself...I mean you positively can't be allowed to. To begin with it's a crime."
    3. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
    4. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
    5. (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.]
    6. (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.]
    7. (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.]
      • 2022, Michael & Stefan Strasser, Chicken Wings‎[1] (comic):
        First he aborts the take-off and now we have a runway incursion!
    8. (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.]
    9. (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
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    Terms derived from abort (verb)
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    Etymology

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    From English abort, from Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

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    • Hyphenation: a‧bort

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    abort

    1. to abort; to cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term

    Crimean Tatar

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    Etymology

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    From Latin abortus.

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    abort

    1. abort, abortion

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    Declension of abort
    singular plural
    nominative abort abortlar
    genitive abortnıñ abortlarnıñ
    dative abortqa abortlarğa
    accusative abortnı abortlarnı
    locative abortta abortlarda
    ablative aborttan abortlardan

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    • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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    abort m inan

    1. (medicine) abortion (expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed)
      Synonym: potrat

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    Declension of abort (hard masculine inanimate)
    singular plural
    nominative abort aborty
    genitive abortu abortů
    dative abortu abortům
    accusative abort aborty
    vocative aborte aborty
    locative abortu abortech
    instrumental abortem aborty

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    Danish

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    abort c (singular definite aborten, plural indefinite aborter)

    1. abortion
    2. miscarriage

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    Declension of abort
    common
    gender     		singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative abort aborten aborter aborterne
    genitive aborts abortens aborters aborternes

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    Etymology

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    From German Abort.

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    abort (genitive abordi, partitive aborti)

    1. abortion
      Mu tüdruk tahab aborti teha.
      My girl wants an abortion.
    2. miscarriage

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    Declension of abort (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
    singular plural
    nominative abort abordid
    accusative nom.
    gen. abordi
    genitive abortide
    partitive aborti aborte
    abortisid
    illative aborti
    abordisse     		abortidesse
    abordesse
    inessive abordis abortides
    abordes
    elative abordist abortidest
    abordest
    allative abordile abortidele
    abordele
    adessive abordil abortidel
    abordel
    ablative abordilt abortidelt
    abordelt
    translative abordiks abortideks
    abordeks
    terminative abordini abortideni
    essive abordina abortidena
    abessive abordita abortideta
    comitative abordiga abortidega

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    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Etymology

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    From Latin abortus (“premature delivery, abortion; miscarriage”), perfect active participle of aborior (“to disappear; to miscarry, be aborted (of a baby)”), a compound from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from orior (“to rise, appear, be born”), from Proto-Italic *orjōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, rise, spring”).

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    abort m (definite singular aborten, indefinite plural aborter, definite plural abortene)

    1. (medicine) an abortion (termination of pregnancy before the fetus is viable outside the uterus)
      Synonyms: misfødsel, fosterdrap, svangerskapsavbrytelse, svangerskapsavbrudd
      illegal abort ― illegal abortion
      provosert abort ― provoked abortion
    2. (medicine) a miscarriage (abortion that occurs by itself)
      Synonym: spontanabort
      ha en abort ― have an abortion
      ta abort ― induce abortion
      habituell abort ― habitual abortion (the miscarriage of 3 or more consecutive pregnancies)
      • 1840 June 23, Den Norske Rigstidende, page 2:
        mange mene, at hensigten [med attentatet] kun har været at forskrække dronningen og derved foraarsage en abort
        many believe that the intention [of the assassination] was only to frighten the queen and thereby cause an abortion
      • 1977, Conrad N. Schwach, Erindringer af mit Liv indtil Ankomsten til Throndhjem, page 298:
        hun havde hørt, at ægteskaber, hvori det første svangerskab endte med abort, som oftest bleve barnløse
        she had heard that marriages in which the first pregnancy ended in abortion often became childless
      • 1977, Conrad N. Schwach, Erindringer af mit Liv indtil Ankomsten til Throndhjem, page 295:
        min kone, som efter aborten længe havde været svag, blev frisk igjen
        my wife, who had been weak for a long time after the abortion, recovered
      • 1996, Ketil Bjørnstad, Historien om Edvard Munch, page 337:
        maleriet [var ikke] noe maleri i det hele tatt, men en abort
        the painting [was] not a painting at all, but an abortion
    3. (medicine) an abortion (termination of pregnancy induced by surgery or medication)
      Synonyms: abortus provocatus, fosterfordrivelse, utskrapning
      foreta en abort ― perform an abortion
      kjønnsbetinget abort ― gendered abortion
      selvbestemt abort ― self-determined abortion (artificial abortion that a pregnant woman may require performed by the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, according to Norwegian law)
      • 1973, Tor Edvin Dahl, Guds tjener, page 136:
        foreldrene sendte ham to tusen kroner og det ble ordnet med illegal abort
        his parents sent him two thousand kroner and an illegal abortion was arranged
      • 1975, Liv Køltzow, Historien om Eli, page 119:
        hun var helt desperat av redsel for at hun ikke skulle få innvilget aborten
        she was desperate for fear that she would not be granted an abortion
      • 1976, Mette Hansen, Kasino, page 33:
        Brita var en av foregangskvinnene for selvbestemt abort
        Brita was one of the pioneers of self-determined abortion
      • 1990, Kåre Willoch, Statsminister, page 53:
        de sterkeste og mest innflytelsesrike motstandere av selvbestemt abort
        the strongest and most influential opponents of self-determined abortion
    4. (medicine, now rare) a premature foetus
    5. (technology) the act of aborting
      Synonym: abortere

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    From Latin abortus.

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    abort m (definite singular aborten, indefinite plural abortar, definite plural abortane)

    1. abortion (induced)
    2. miscarriage (spontaneous)
      Synonym: spontanabort

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    Polish

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    Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
    Proto-Indo-European *-o
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
    Proto-Italic *ap
    Latin abder.
    Latin ab-
    Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-der.?
    Proto-Italic *orjōr
    Latin orior
    Latin aborior
    Latin abortō
    Latin abortareder.
    English abortbor.
    Polish abort

      Borrowed from English abort.

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      abort m inan

      1. (medicine) abortion (act of inducing abortion)
        Synonym: aborcja
        Coordinate term: poronienie
      2. (computing) force quit, closing (act of stopping a program)

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      Declension of abort
      singular plural
      nominative abort aborty
      genitive abortu abortów
      dative abortowi abortom
      accusative abort aborty
      instrumental abortem abortami
      locative aborcie abortach
      vocative aborcie aborty
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      adjectives
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      • “abort”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • “abort”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish)

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      Etymology

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      Unadapted borrowing from English abort.

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      abort m (plural aborts)

      1. (computing) abort (function used to abort a process)
        Synonym: abortamento

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      abort c

      1. abort, abortion (the process of ending a pregnancy)
        Hon gjorde abort
        She had an abortion
      2. (obsolete) an abort, a miscarriage
        Synonyms: missfall, spontanabort

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      Declension of abort
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite abort aborts
      definite aborten abortens
      plural indefinite aborter aborters
      definite aborterna aborternas

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      abort

      1. Latin spelling of аборт (abort)
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