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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of abeō (“depart”)
Participle
abiēns (genitive abeuntis); third-declension one-termination participle
- departing, going away
- passing away, disappearing, ceasing
- retiring (from office)
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
- “abiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abiens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- abiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.