Talk:aborigo

RFV discussion: May 2021–February 2022
Latin. Tagged by 2003:DE:371E:8036:48B:27C0:A1EC:B6DB on 2 May, not listed:


 * “also by the ref it's only pl. aborīginēs = original inhabitants, and compared with L&S, Georges and others it's m. not f. (though maybe no gender is attested and it's only assumed, here taken from origo f., elsewhere based on the meaning?)”

J3133 (talk) 12:32, 4 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I always thought that (spelled with a capital A in L&S) arose as a plural form for a univerbation of . Wouldn’t *aborigo, most plausibly analysed as, have the unfortunate connotation of ?  --Lambiam 12:20, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * L&S has both: 1. Aborigines, -um, m.: a specific people, 2. aborigines (it's "as an appellative" and then example with "aborigines"): original inhabitants. 3. there's aborigineus, -a, -um: aboriginal. --2003:DE:371E:8030:CCAA:59D1:6671:8283 20:00, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The word aborigo seems to have some existence in 2nd-millennium Latin meaning "weed, scion" - see DMLBS. I can't find a single use of the singular meaning "aborigine".
 * I'm calling this RFV-failed for the "aborigine" sense, but some eager beaver might like to add the "weed" sense if it is actually used, as opposed to just being mentioned in glossaries. This, that and the other (talk) 12:23, 25 February 2022 (UTC)