aborigines

Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.^[1]

aborigines

1. plural of aborigine

aborigines pl (plural only)

1. The original people of a location, originally Greek and Roman. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]^[2]
2. Indigenous flora and fauna. [First attested in the late 17^th century.]^[2]
3. (history) The inhabitants of a location before colonization by the Europeans occurred. [First attested in the early 18^th century.]^[2]

• baignoires

Unclear. The term is often suggested to derive from ab orīgine (“from the beginning”).^[1][2][3] 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.^[3] (Roman authors also suggested several other possible origins, like aberrō or ab + Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain”), none of which is considered probable.^[3])

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.boˈriː.ɡi.neːs/, [äbɔˈriːɡɪneːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.boˈri.d͡ʒi.nes/, [äboˈriːd͡ʒines]

aborīginēs m pl (genitive aborīginum); third declension

1. aborigines (original inhabitants)

Third-declension noun, plural only.

• “aborigines”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aborigines 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)
• “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