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aborn en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English born English aborn From a- + born.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) born, begotten, created, developed
    • ... or (B) explain it away as something caused by the circumstances of his birth: "Aye, we often see these moles on babes aborn on escape wessels under Romulan attack ... " 2009 May 31, “Star Trek”, in Ron's Log, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2011:
    • After all, the author of "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Sabbath's Theater" has made a literary career out of fudging the line between his life and his fiction, writing endlessly aborn misogynistic protagonists teasingly named Philip. 1996 September 26, Newsweek, quotee, “A Tale of Exes and Ohs”, in The Daily Beast, retrieved 14 Sep 2012:

aborn en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English born English aborn From a- + born.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) past participle of abear
    form of abear

Relateds

aborning · born