The corpus record — Latin

aborior

To set

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 45 · 1.14/10k
Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k
Letters 3 · 0.46/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

ăb-ŏrĭor — Lewis & Short

ăb-ŏrĭor, ortus, 4,

I v. n. dep.

I (Opp. of orior.) To set, disappear, pass away (very rare): infimus aër, ubi omnia oriuntur, ubi aboriuntur, Varr. L.L. 5, 7, § 66 Müll. —Of the voice, to fail, stop: infringi linguam vocemque aboriri, Lucr. 3, 155.—

II Of untimely birth, to miscarry (v. ab, III. 1.); Varr. ap. Non. 71, 27; Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 205.

In the wild

abortus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.6.5
abortu Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.11.6
abortus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.16.p2
abortu Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.19.p5
abortus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.5.p5
abortus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.6.p7

6 of 60 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.