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aborigines¹

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Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.

noun

  1. plural plural of aborigine

noun

  1. plural, plural only The original people of a location; originally used of ancient Greek and Roman peoples. There seems little doubt that the aborigines of Banda were Papuans, and a portion of them still exists in the Ke islands, where they emigrated when the Portuguese first took possession of their native island. It is such people as these that are often looked upon as transitional forms between two ver
  2. plural, plural only Indigenous flora and fauna.
  3. plural, plural only The inhabitants of a location before colonization by the Europeans occurred.

Aborigines²

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs, which see for more.

proper noun the Aborigines

  1. plural, plural only Original inhabitants, natives.
  2. Roman, plural, plural only The earliest inhabitants of central Italy, from whom the Latins were said to have descended.
  3. plural, plural only The native peoples of various regions, especially the Australian Aboriginal peoples, but also the original inhabitants of Canada and Argentina. Often considered offensive. AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.

noun

  1. plural plural of Aborigine

Translations

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name the earliest inhabitants of central Italy

Portuguêsaborígines

name the Australian Aborigine peoples

ΕλληνικάΑβορίγινες Avorígines
Русскийабориге́ны aborigény

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@misc{aborigines_2026,
  title = {aborigines},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/aborigines},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}