absens

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Present active participle of absum (“be away from, absent”)

Pronunciation

Participle

absēns (genitive absentis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. absent, missing

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative absēns absentēs absentia
Genitive absentis absentium
Dative absentī absentibus
Accusative absentem absēns absentēs
absentīs 		absentia
Ablative absente
absentī1 		absentibus
Vocative absēns absentēs absentia

1When used purely as an adjective.

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References

  • “absens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “absens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • absens 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)
  • absens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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