Aborior, abóreris, pen. corr. vel aboríris, pen. prod. abortus sum, abóriri. To be borne or brought fourth before naturall tyme.vt fœtus quoque ipfi in corpore concepti aboriantur. Gell. Aboriri vox dicitur ídque per metaphoram, quando præ metu, aut alia de causa, deficít. Luc. To fayle or faint.
Abortus, huius abortus, Verbale. Cic.An vntimely birth nigh to the time of deliueraunce whereby the dieth.Vno abortu duodecim puerperia egesta. Plin. Abortus etiam de arboribus dicitur. Plin. Quoniam arborum etiam abortus inuenimus.Facere abortum. Plin. To bring forth before tyme.Abortum facere, pro abortum inferre. Plin. To cause vntimely birth: to make abortion.Facere abortum, de libris dictum. Plin. Pati abortum. Plin. To trauayle before tyme: to casse the yong.Inferre abortum. Plin. To make any female to bring forth before time.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ăb-ŏrĭor, ortus, 4, v. n. dep.I. (Opp. of orior.) To set, disappear, pass away (very rare): infimus aër, ubi omnia oriuntur, ubi aboriuntur, Varr. L.L. 5, 7, 66 Müll. —Of the voice, to fail, stop: infringi linguam vocemque aboriri, Lucr. 3, 155.—II. Of untimely birth, to miscarry (v. ab, III. 1.); Varr. ap. Non. 71, 27; Plin. 8, 51, 77, 205.
ăbortus, ūs, m. (abortum, i, n., Dig. 29, 2, 30; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 29 Müll.) [aborior], an abortion, miscarriage.I.Lit.: dicam abortum esse, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 38: Tertullae nollem abortum,
had not miscarried
, Cic. Att. 14, 20, 2: abortum facere,
to suffer abortion
,
miscarry
, Plin. Ep. 8, 10, 1; but also, to produce or cause abortion, Plin. 14, 18, 22, 118; 21, 18, 69, 116 al.—B.Meton., of plants, Plin. 12, 2, 6, 13.— II.Trop., of writings, an unfinished piece, Plin. praef. 28.