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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
- 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.
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Interlingua
Noun
absentia (plural absentias)
- 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
Noun
absentia f (genitive absentiae); first declension
- 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.