aborigine

See also: Aborigine, aborígine, and ab origine

English

Etymology

Back-formation from aborigines.

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
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Noun

aborigine (countable and uncountable, plural aborigines)

  1. A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people. [First attested in the early 19th century.][1]
  2. (in the plural) The native flora and fauna of an area. [First attested in the late 17th century.][1]

Usage notes
  • 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 inflection from 'Aborigines', not actually originally an S-addition pluralization (see Aborigine/Aborigines/Aboriginal entries in Oxford Dictionary).

Descendants
  • Norwegian Bokmål: aborigin

Translations

References
  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

Anagrams

Finnish

Etymology

From English aborigine.

Noun

aborigine

  1. Aborigine (aboriginal Australian)

Declension
Declension of aborigine (irregular)
singular plural
nominative aborigine aboriginet
genitive aboriginen aboriginien
partitive aboriginea aborigineja
accusative aborigine
aboriginen		 aboriginet
inessive aboriginessa aborigineissa
elative aboriginesta aborigineista
illative aborigineen aborigineihin
adessive aboriginella aborigineilla
ablative aboriginelta aborigineilta
allative aboriginelle aborigineille
essive aboriginena aborigineina
translative aborigineksi aborigineiksi
instructive – aboriginein
abessive aboriginetta aborigineitta
comitative – aborigineineen

See also

Latin

Adjective

aborigine

  1. vocative masculine singular of aboriginus
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