"abortifacient" meaning in English

See abortifacient in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /əˌbɔɹ.təˈfeɪ.ʃn̩t/ [US], /əˌbɔɹ.tɪˈfeɪ.ʃn̩t/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-abortifacient.wav [US] Forms: more abortifacient [comparative], most abortifacient [superlative]
Etymology: First attested in 1875. abortion + -facient (“causing an”), from Latin facere (“to make”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|abortion|facient|t2=causing an}} abortion + -facient (“causing an”), {{der|en|la|facere||to make}} Latin facere (“to make”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} abortifacient (comparative more abortifacient, superlative most abortifacient)
  1. (pharmacology) Producing miscarriage. Categories (topical): Pharmaceutical effects, Abortion Derived forms: antiabortifacient Translations (producing miscarriage): abortivní [feminine, masculine, neuter] (Czech), abortief (Dutch), vruchtafdrijvend (Dutch), abortigilo (Esperanto), abortif (French), abortivo (Italian), abortiv (Norwegian Bokmål), abortivo (Portuguese), абортивный (abortivnyj) (Russian), abortivo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-abortifacient-en-adj-u0hsg1DQ Disambiguation of Abortion: 65 35 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -facient Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 59 41 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -facient: 54 46 Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences

Noun

IPA: /əˌbɔɹ.təˈfeɪ.ʃn̩t/ [US], /əˌbɔɹ.tɪˈfeɪ.ʃn̩t/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-abortifacient.wav [US] Forms: abortifacients [plural]
Etymology: First attested in 1875. abortion + -facient (“causing an”), from Latin facere (“to make”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|abortion|facient|t2=causing an}} abortion + -facient (“causing an”), {{der|en|la|facere||to make}} Latin facere (“to make”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} abortifacient (plural abortifacients)
  1. (pharmacology) A drug or an agent that induces an abortion. Categories (topical): Pharmaceutical drugs Synonyms: abortificant Translations (agent that causes premature delivery): abortivum [neuter] (Dutch), vruchtafdrijvend middel [neuter] (Dutch), abortif [masculine] (French), remède abortif [masculine] (French), abortivo [masculine] (Italian), abagmentum [neuter] (Latin), abortiv [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), abortpille [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), abortivo (Portuguese), абортивное средство (abortivnoje sredstvo) [neuter] (Russian), abortivo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-abortifacient-en-noun-xDS~u82Z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -facient Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -facient: 54 46 Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences

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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "abortivum"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vruchtafdrijvend middel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abortif"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "remède abortif"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abortivo"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "abagmentum"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "abortiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abortpille"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "word": "abortivo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "abortivnoje sredstvo",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "абортивное средство"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "agent that causes premature delivery",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abortivo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "abortifacient"
}

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