abort

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

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

abort (plural aborts)

1. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17^th century.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, 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.

2. (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
3. (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.

4. (computing) The function used to abort a process.
5. (computing) An event involving the abort of a process.

   We've had three aborts over the last two days.

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

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 16^th 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 19^th century.]
3. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
4. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. [First attested in the late 16^th 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 19^th 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 19^th 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 20^th century.]
8. (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely. [First attested in the mid 20^th century.]
9. (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.

• abend
• exception

• abort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• 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 978-0-7381-6205-8, DOI 10.1109/IEEESTD.2010.5733835

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

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

• Hyphenation: a‧bort

abort

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

From Latin abortus.

abort

1. abort, abortion

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

• IPA^(key): /abʌɐ̯t/
• Rhymes: -ʌɐ̯t

abort c (singular definite aborten, plural indefinite aborter)

1. abortion
2. miscarriage

abort (genitive abordi, partitive aborti)

1. abortion

   Mu tüdruk tahab aborti teha.

   My girl wants an abortion.

2. miscarriage

From Latin abortus

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈbɔɾt/, [ɑˈbɔʈː]
• Rhymes: -ɔʈ

abort m (definite singular aborten, indefinite plural aborter, definite plural abortene)

1. an abortion (deliberate termination of a pregnancy)

• spontan abort, spontanabort

• “abort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin abortus

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

1. an abortion (deliberate termination of a pregnancy)

• spontan abort, spontanabort

• “abort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

abort m (plural aborts)

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

• abortamento

abort c

1. (obsolete) an abort, a miscarriage
2. abort, abortion (about the process of aborting a pregnancy)

• abortera
• abortiv
• abortmedel
• få abort
• göra abort

• abort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)