abortpille

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Etymology

abort +‎ pille, first part 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”). Last part from Middle Low German pille (“pill”), from Latin pilula (“small ball, pellet; pill”), diminutive of pila (“ball; globe, sphere”) (with the suffix -ula, from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom (instrumental suffix)), likely from pilus (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *pil- (“one string of hair”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈbɔʈpɪlːə/, /aˈbɔʁtpɪlːə/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪlːə
  • Hyphenation: ab‧ort‧pil‧le

Noun

abortpille f or m (definite singular abortpilla or abortpillen, indefinite plural abortpiller, definite plural abortpillene)

  1. (pharmacology, medicine) an abortifacient pill (a drug or an agent that induces an abortion)
    • 1977, Dagbladet:
      «abort-pillen» er laget på prostaglandinbasis og er slett ikke så ny og revolusjonerende som de siste meldinger går ut på
      The "abortion pill" is made on a prostaglandin basis and is not at all as new and revolutionary as the latest reports are about

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