absens
Latin
Alternative forms
- apsēns
Etymology
Present active participle of absum (“be away from, absent”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈab.sens/, [ˈäps̠ẽːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈab.sens/, [ˈäbsens]
Participle
absēns (genitive absentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- absent, missing
Declension
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | absēns | absentēs | absentia | ||
| Genitive | absentis | absentium | |||
| Dative | absentī | absentibus | |||
| Accusative | absentem | absēns | absentēs absentīs | absentia | |
| Ablative | absente absentī1 | absentibus | |||
| Vocative | absēns | absentēs | absentia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
Related terms
- absentia
- absentīvus
- absentō
- absum
Descendants
- Asturian: ausente
- Catalan: absent
- English: absent
- French: absent, sans
- Galician: ausente
- → Old High German: abawesan (calque)
- German: abwesend
- Italian: assente
- Portuguese: ausente
- Romanian: absent
- Spanish: ausente
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