Abortee

Part of speech: noun

Pronunciation: /ə.bɔːɹˈti/

Definitions

1. A person who has undergone an abortion
2. Someone who has experienced the medical procedure of terminating a pregnancy
3. An individual who has had their pregnancy intentionally ended through medical means

Etymology: The word is a simple formation: "abort" plus the suffix "-ee," which marks the person on the receiving end of an action, as in "employee" or "trainee." "Abort" itself comes from Latin "abortare," from "aboriri," meaning to miscarry, built from "ab-" ("away") and "oriri" ("to rise" or "to be born"). So the original sense was something like "to be born away," that is, to come to nothing before birth. English took "abort" in the sense of ending a pregnancy, and "abortee" followed as a noun for the woman undergoing that procedure. Its use is a straightforward product of that verb plus the familiar suffix, with no older sense of the noun to trace.

Synonyms: miscarriage victim, terminated pregnancy, aborted fetus