aborigines

See also: Aborigines and aborígines

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.^[1]

Noun

aborigines

plural of aborigine

Noun

aborigines pl (plural only)

The original people of a location, originally Greek and Roman. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]^[2]
Indigenous flora and fauna. [First attested in the late 17^th century.]^[2]
(history) The inhabitants of a location before colonization by the Europeans occurred. [First attested in the early 18^th century.]^[2]

References

^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 4
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aborigines”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.

Anagrams

baignoires

Latin

Etymology

Unclear. The term is often suggested to derive from ab orīgine (“from the beginning”).^[1]^[2]^[3] However, early Latin sources seem to treat it as the name of a specific people rather than a general term for original inhabitants of anywhere, so it may be the pre-Roman substrate name of a specific tribe which was altered to resemble ab orīgine due to folk etymology.^[3] (Roman authors also suggested several other possible origins, like aberrō or ab + Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain”), none of which is considered probable.^[3])

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.boˈriː.ɡi.neːs/, [äbɔˈriːɡɪneːs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.boˈri.d͡ʒi.nes/, [äboˈriːd͡ʒines]

Noun

aborīginēs m pl (genitive aborīginum); third declension

aborigines (original inhabitants)

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

	plural
nominative	aborīginēs
genitive	aborīginum
dative	aborīginibus
accusative	aborīginēs
ablative	aborīginibus
vocative	aborīginēs

References

“aborigines”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
aborigines in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“aborigines”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
“aborigines”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“aborigines”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

References

^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “aborigines”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 5
^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 4
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 “aborigine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

[1] Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 4

[SOED-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aborigines”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.

[3] Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “aborigines”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 5

[4] Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 4

[MWO-5] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 “aborigine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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