abort

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbɔːt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbɔɹt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.
5. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by 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

• → Polish: abort
• → Portuguese: abort

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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.
   • 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.
3. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
4. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
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.
6. (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
7. (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
   • 2022, Michael & Stefan Strasser, Chicken Wings‎ (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.
9. (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (computing) abend, exception

References

• “abort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
• “abort” in "Systems and software engineering—vocabulary", ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010(E), 15 December 2010, →ISBN, DOI 10.1109/IEEESTD.2010.5733835

Anagrams

• Barot, Barto, Bator, ORBAT, Tabor, Tobar, Torba, boart, rabot, tabor

Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧bort

Verb

abort

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

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin abortus.

Noun

abort

1. abort, abortion

Declension

References

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

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

abort

Wikipedia ^cs

Alternative forms

• abortus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

abort m inan

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

   Synonym: potrat

Declension

Further reading

• abort in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• abort in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• abort in Internetová jazyková příručka
• abort in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012-, slovnikcestiny.cz

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

abort

Wikipedia ^da

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abʌɐ̯t/
• Rhymes: -ʌɐ̯t

Noun

abort c (singular definite aborten, plural indefinite aborter)

1. abortion
2. miscarriage

Inflection

Estonian

Etymology

From German Abort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈb̥ort/
• Rhymes: -ort

Noun

abort (genitive abordi, partitive aborti)

1. abortion

   Mu tüdruk tahab aborti teha.

   My girl wants an abortion.

2. miscarriage

Declension

Derived terms

References

• abort in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

abort

Wikipedia ^nb

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈbɔʈ/, /aˈbɔʁt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔʈ, -ɔʁt, -ɔrt
• Hyphenation: ab‧ort

Noun

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 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 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

Derived terms

See also

• abortus (“abortion, monstrosity”)
• abortiv (“abortive”)
• abortør (“abortionist”)
• fosterreduksjon (“fetal reduction”)

References

• “abort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abort” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abort” in Store medisinske leksikon

Anagrams

• abrot, borat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

abort

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Latin abortus.

Noun

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

1. an abortion (deliberate termination of a pregnancy)

Derived terms

• spontan abort, spontanabort

References

• “abort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

abort

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from English abort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.bɔrt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abɔrt
• Syllabification: a‧bort

Noun

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

Related terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English abort.

Noun

abort m (plural aborts)

1. (computing) abort (function used to abort a process)

   Synonym: abortamento

Swedish

Noun

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

Derived terms

• abortpiller (“abortion pill”)

Related terms

• abortera
• abortiv

Descendants

• → Finnish: abortti

References

• abort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• abort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• abort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• abort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)

Anagrams

• borta, botar

Tatar

Noun

abort

1. Latin spelling of аборт (abort)