The corpus record — Latin

abortivus

abortivus · adj

pertaining to a premature delivery

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Where it lives

Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ăbortīvus — Lewis & Short

ăbortīvus, a, um, adj.abortio,

I pertaining to a premature delivery.

I Adj.

A Born prematurely = abortus: Sisyphus, * Hor. S. 1, 3, 46; cf. Juv. 2, 32: ovum, addled, Mart. 6, 93.—

B That causes abortion: malvae, Plin. 20, 21, 84, § 226; so id. 24, 5, 11, § 18: sternuisse a coitu abortivum, id. 7, 6, 5, § 42.—

II Subst.: ăbortīvum, i, n.

A An abortion, Plin. 18, 17, 44, § 150; Vulg. 1 Cor. 15, 8 al.—

B (Sc. medicamentum.) A means of procuring abortion = abiga, Juv. 6, 368.

In the wild

abortivo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.7.p3
abortiva Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 13.p2
abortivas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.21.p1
abortivum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.16.24
abortivo Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.368
abortivum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.6

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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