English

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.

See also

• absentia epileptica

Anagrams

• basanite
• Batesian

Interlingua

Noun

absentia ‎(plural absentias)

1. absence

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /apˈsen.ti.a/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /apˈsɛnt͡sja/

Noun

absentia f ‎(genitive absentiae); first declension

1. absence
2. vocative singular of absentia

absentiā

1. ablative singular of absentia

Inflection

First declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “absentia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.