absentia

English

Etymology

From Latin absentia (“being away, absence”), from absēns (“absent”), present active participle of absum (“I am away or absent”); compare absent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æbˈsɛnt͡ʃi.ə/, /æbˈsɛnt͡ʃə/, /æbˈsɛnʃə/, /æbˈsɛnʃi.ə/

Noun

absentia

1. absence

Usage notes

• This sense of the word absentia is normally found only in the borrowed Latin phrase in absentia (“while absent”); however, perhaps due to reanalysis of Latin in as English in, variants are occasionally found, such as “in his absentia” (meaning “while he was absent”). Such variants may be considered nonstandard.

Related terms

• absent

See also

• absentia epileptica

Anagrams

• Batesian, basanite

Interlingua

Noun

absentia (plural absentias)

1. absence

Latin

Etymology

From absēns (“absent”) +‎ -ia, present active participle of absum (“I am away or absent”), from ab (“from, away from”) + sum (“I am”).

Pronunciation

• absentia: (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈsen.ti.a/,
• absentia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈsen.t͡si.a/,
• absentiā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈsen.ti.aː/,
• absentiā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈsen.t͡si.a/,

Noun

absentia f (genitive absentiae); first declension

1. absence

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

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