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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of absum (“be away from, absent”)
Pronunciation
Participle
absēns (genitive absentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- absent, missing, away, away from, distant, gone, gone away
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.83:
- illum absēns absentem auditque videtque; .
- he has gone away, she hears and sees missing .
(Nominative and accusative forms side-by-side: The poetic collocation doubly emphasizes how much Dido misses Aeneas, and how he remains in her thoughts even when he is away.)
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants
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.