Ăbŏrīgĭnes

I. the primeval Romans, the Aborigines, the nation which, previous to historical record, descended from the Apennines, and, advancing from Carseoli and Reate into the plain, drove out the Siculi; the ancestors of the Romans, Cato ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 6; Varr. L. L. 5, § 53 Müll.; Cic. Rep. 2, 3; Sall. C. 6; Liv. 1, 1.

I. Used as an appellative, original inhabitants, Plin. 4, 21, 36, § 120: Indigenae sunt inde ... geniti, quos vocant aborigines Latini, Graeci αὐτόχθονας, Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 328.—

II. Hence, ăbŏrīgĭnĕus, a, um, adj., aboriginal: sacellum, Ter. Maur. p. 2425 P.