Latin

Noun

abiga f ‎(genitive abigae); first declension

1. (botany) The common name for a flowering plant (also known as Yellow Bugle or Ajuga chamaepitys) used in medicine to induce an abortion.

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

References

• abiga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ABIGA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abiga”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.