abiga

Estonian

Noun

abiga

1. comitative singular of abi

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.bi.ɡa/, [ˈäbɪɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.bi.ɡa/, [ˈäːbiɡä]

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abiga	abigae
Genitive	abigae	abigārum
Dative	abigae	abigīs
Accusative	abigam	abigās
Ablative	abigā	abigīs
Vocative	abiga	abigae

Descendants

• → Translingual: Ajuga

Related terms

• abactius
• abactor
• abactus
• abagmentum

• abigeātor
• abigeātus
• abigeus
• abigō

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.