aborigine
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from aborigines.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaborigine (countable and uncountable, plural aborigines)
- A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people. [First attested in the early 19th century.][1]
- (in the plural) The native flora and fauna of an area. [First attested in the late 17th century.][1]
Usage notes
edit- Usually capitalized in Australian contexts, Aborigine. Today considered offensive; more appropriate terms would be "Aboriginal person" or "Indigenous Australian".
- Fowler's 3rd edition considers this singular to be "etymologically indefensible" notwithstanding its having become the established form in Australia since 1829. This is in reference to its derivation from aborigines, which was not actually formed as aborigine + -s but is the historically original word.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- →? Norwegian Bokmål: aborigin
Translations
editaboriginal inhabitant of a country
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References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aborigine”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
Further reading
edit- “aborigine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English aborigine.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaborigine (rare)
- Aborigine (aboriginal Australian)
Declension
editInflection of aborigine (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | aborigine | aboriginet | |
genitive | aboriginen | aboriginejen | |
partitive | aboriginea | aborigineja | |
illative | aborigineen | aborigineihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | aborigine | aboriginet | |
accusative | nom. | aborigine | aboriginet |
gen. | aboriginen | ||
genitive | aboriginen | aboriginejen aboriginein rare | |
partitive | aboriginea | aborigineja | |
inessive | aboriginessa | aborigineissa | |
elative | aboriginesta | aborigineista | |
illative | aborigineen | aborigineihin | |
adessive | aboriginella | aborigineilla | |
ablative | aboriginelta | aborigineilta | |
allative | aboriginelle | aborigineille | |
essive | aboriginena | aborigineina | |
translative | aborigineksi | aborigineiksi | |
abessive | aboriginetta | aborigineitta | |
instructive | — | aboriginein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
See also
editLatin
editAdjective
editaborigine
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