abiga

Estonian

Noun

abiga

1. comitative singular of abi

Latin

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Ajuga chamaepitys

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Etymology

From abigō (“force birth, cause an abortion”).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.bɪ.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.bi.ɡa]

Noun

abiga f (genitive abigae); first declension (dis legomenon)

1. a flowering plant known as yellow bugle or Ajuga chamaepitys used in medicine to induce an abortion.

   Synonyms: chamaepitys, corissum

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.29
   • 300 CE – 400 CE, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium 27

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	abiga	abigae
genitive	abigae	abigārum
dative	abigae	abigīs
accusative	abigam	abigās
ablative	abigā	abigīs
vocative	abiga	abigae

Related terms

• abactius
• abactor
• abactus
• abagmentum
• abigeātor
• abigeātus
• abigeus
• abigō

Descendants

• → Translingual: Ajuga

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.bɪ.ɡaː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.bi.ɡa]

Noun

abigā f

1. ablative singular of abiga

References

• “abiga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "abiga", 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)
• “abiga”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.