From aborior (“to pass away”) +‎ -īvus, from ab (“from, away from”) + orior (“rise, get up; appear”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.bɔrˈtiː.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.borˈtiː.vus]

abortīvus (feminine abortīva, neuter abortīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a premature delivery, miscarriage, or abortion.
2. Of that which causes an abortion or miscarriage.
3. born prematurely

First/second-declension adjective.

• abortīvum

• “abortivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abortivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "abortivus", 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)
• “abortivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.