unborn

Etymology

From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.

adj

1. Not yet born; yet to come; future.
2. Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
3. Existing without birth or beginning.

noun

1. (countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
   Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal. 2009, Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”, in Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, Oxford University Press, page 176
2. (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.
   Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.