absque

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Latin

Pronunciation

Preposition

absque (+ ablative)

  1. without
    • Absque sudore et labore nullum opus perfectum est.
      Without sweat and labor no work is perfected.
  2. apart from
  3. but for

Descendants

References

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