[a form occasionally occurring as a singular to ABORIGINES (which had no sing. in L.); ad. Fr. aborigène, or following the analogy of the simple ORIGIN, L. orīgo, orīgin-em, pl. orīgin-es. But the tendency is to treat ABORIGINES as a purely Eng. word, and make the singular aborigin-e.]
1606. Warner, Albion’s Eng., XV. xciii. 374. For Welsh and Scots, so far-forth we Aborigens may name.
1832. I. Taylor, Sat. Even. (1834), 349. He is then aborigin of all spheres of thought, & finds himself at home & at ease in every region.
1859. R. F. Burton, Lake Reg. Cent. Afr., in Journ. R. G. S., XXIX. 135. § 7. The Cimex lectularius … is apparently an aborigen of the country.
