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abort

See also: Abort

English

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Pronunciation

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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 (“come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

Noun

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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.]
  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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Cebuano

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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”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: a‧bort

Verb

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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.

Noun

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abort

  1. abort, abortion

Declension

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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

References

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

Czech

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Noun

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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

Declension

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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

Further reading

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  • “abort”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • “abort”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “abort”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
  • “abort” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2024, slovnikcestiny.cz

Danish

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Noun

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abort c (singular definite aborten, plural indefinite aborter)

  1. abortion
  2. miscarriage

Inflection

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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

Estonian

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Etymology

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From German Abort.

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Noun

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abort (genitive abordi, partitive aborti)

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

Declension

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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 (“I disappear; miscarry, am 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 (“I rise, appear, am born”), from Proto-Italic *orjōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, rise, spring”).

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Noun

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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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Etymology

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From Latin abortus.

Noun

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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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Etymology

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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)

Declension

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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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Further reading

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  • abort in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • abort in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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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

Swedish

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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

Declension

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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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Tatar

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Noun

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abort

  1. Latin spelling of аборт (abort)
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