abortere

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

abortere

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of aborteren

Anagrams

• aborteer

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

abort +‎ -ere, 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 Old Norse -era, through Middle High German -ieren, from Old French -ier, from Latin -āre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑbɔˈʈeːrə/, /ɑbɔʁˈteːrə/

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• Rhymes: -eːrə
• Hyphenation: ab‧or‧te‧re

Verb

abortere (passive aborteres, imperative aborter, present tense aborterer, simple past aborterte, past participle abortert, present participle aborterende, verbal noun abortering)

1. (medicine) to miscarry (give birth to a non-viable fetus)
   • 1960, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons brevveksling med svenske I, page 32:

     aborterer Karoline saa falder jeg i slet humør

     if Karoline has a miscarriage I will be in a bad mood

   • 1977, Conrad N. Schwach, Erindringer af mit Liv indtil Ankomsten til Throndhjem, page 294:

     min kone … blev syg, og aborterede i februar 1821

     my wife… became ill, and had a miscarriage in February 1821

   • 1974, Jens Bjørneboe, Haiene, page 158:

     kvinnen hadde altså abortert da barnet befant seg i den hårete fasen

     the woman had thus had a miscarriage when the child was in the hairy phase

   • 2014 December 28, Bergens Tidende, page 5:

     faktisk er det så vanlig å abortere, at de fleste kvinner vil oppleve det i løpet av sitt fruktbare liv, hvis de har tre eller fire påbegynte svangerskap

     in fact, miscarriage is so common, that most women will experience it during their fertile life, if they have three or four pregnancies started

2. (medicine) to abort (to cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term)
   • 2014 December 27, dagbladet.no:

     vi i Norge har en abortlov som tillater å abortere bort fostre med uønskede egenskaper

     we in Norway have an abortion law that allows aborting fetuses with unwanted characteristics

3. to abort, cancel (to terminate a process prior to completion, to stop in the preliminary stages)
   • 1971, VG:

     ingen av passasjerene om bord i «Erik Viking» ble skadet under oppbremsingen, men stemningen under den aborterte avgangen var neppe særlig behagelig

     none of the passengers on board the "Erik Viking" were injured during the braking, but the atmosphere during the aborted departure was hardly very pleasant

   • 1928 June 7, A-magasinet, page 2:

     et bekjentskap fødes eller aborteres

     an acquaintance is born or aborted

   • 2000, Bjørnar Pedersen og Egil Birkeland, Hillman Hunter, page 159:

     det aborterte portrettintervjuet med Magnhild Knoph

     the aborted portrait interview with Magnhild Knoph

   abortere et dataprogram

   abort a computer program

4. (intransitive, technology) to be interrupted

   programkjøringen aborterte pga. manglende kapasitet

   the program execution aborted due to lack of capacity

Derived terms

• spontanabortere (“miscarry”)

Descendants

• → Northern Sami: abortēret

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• abortera

Verb

abortere

1. to miscarry (abort a foetus involuntarily)

References

• “abortere” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.