aborigines

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs. === Noun === aborigines plural of aborigine === Noun === aborigines pl (plural only) The original people of a location, originally Greek and Roman. [First attested in the mid 16th century.] Indigenous flora and fauna. [First attested in the late 17th century.] (history) The inhabitants of a location before colonization by the Europeans occurred. [First attested in the early 18th century.] === References === === Anagrams === baignoires == Latin == === Etymology === Unclear. The term is often suggested to derive from ab orīgine (“from the beginning”). However, early Latin sources seem to treat it as the name of a specific people rather than a general term for original inhabitants of anywhere, so it may be the pre-Roman substrate name of a specific tribe which was altered to resemble ab orīgine due to folk etymology. (Roman authors also suggested several other possible origins, like aberrō or ab + Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain”), none of which is considered probable.) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.bɔˈriː.ɡɪ.neːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.boˈriː.d͡ʒi.nes] === Noun === aborīginēs m pl (genitive aborīginum); third declension aborigines (original inhabitants) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, plural only. ==== Descendants ==== English: → aborigines, ⇒ aborigine → Old Galician-Portuguese: aborigenesGalician: aborixePortuguese: aborígene → Old Spanish: aborigines Spanish: aborigen === References === === Further reading === “aborigines”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "aborigines", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “aborigines”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1] “aborigines”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “aborigines”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly