unborn

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Etymology

un- +‎ born

Adjective

unborn (not comparable)

1. not yet born; yet to come; future.
2. not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
3. existing without birth or beginning.

Translations

not born

• Danish: ufødt (da)
• Dutch: ongeboren (nl)
• Finnish: syntymätön (fi)
• German: ungeboren (de)

• Greek: αγέννητος (el) (agénnitos) 
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ufødt (no)

• Swedish: ofödd (sv)

still in mother's womb

• Danish: ufødt (da)
• Dutch: ongeboren (nl)
• Finnish: syntymätön (fi)
• German: ungeboren (de)

• Greek: αγέννητος (el) (agénnitos) 
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ufødt (no)

• Swedish: ofödd (sv)

without beginning

• Greek: αγέννητος (el) (agénnitos) 

Noun

unborn (countable and uncountable; plural unborns)

1. (countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
   • 2009, Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), ISBN 9780195380040, page 176:

     Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.

2. (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.

   Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.

Quotations

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