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Latin
Etymology
From praesēns (“present”) + -ia (abstract noun suffix).
Noun
praesentia f (genitive praesentiae); first declension
- presence; the state of being present or at hand
- present (time)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Adjective
praesentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of praesēns
References
- “praesentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praesentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praesentia 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)
- praesentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) at present; for the moment: in praesentia, in praesens (tempus)