1. ăbortĭo — Lewis & Short
ăbortĭo, ōnis, f.id.,
I premature delivery, miscarriage, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 98; Cic. Clu. 12; Dig. 48, 19, 38, § 5.
The corpus record — Latin
abortio
abortio · f
premature delivery
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
- Pro A. Cluentio 2 · 0.96/10k
- Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. ăbortĭo — Lewis & Short
ăbortĭo, īre, 4, v. n.id.
I to miscarry, Vulg. Job, 21, 10; in Plin. 8, 51, 77, aboriendi is the true reading (Jan.).
In the wild
- abortionis Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 34
- abortioni Plautus, Truculentus 1.2
- abortio Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.16.21
- abortione Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 125
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.