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absum
absum
Latin
Verb
absum (present infinitive abesse, perfect active āfuī, future participle āfutūrus); irregular conjugation
Synonyms
- (I am away): longe sum
Inflection
| Conjugation of absum (highly irregular, suppletive, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | absum | abes | abest | absumus | abestis | absunt |
| imperfect | aberam | aberās | aberat | aberāmus | aberātis | aberant | |
| future | aberō | aberis, abere | aberit | aberimus | aberitis | aberunt | |
| perfect | āfuī | āfuistī | āfuit | āfuimus | āfuistis | āfuērunt, āfuēre | |
| pluperfect | āfueram | āfuerās | āfuerat | āfuerāmus | āfuerātis | āfuerant | |
| future perfect | āfuerō | āfueris | āfuerit | āfuerimus | āfueritis | āfuerint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | absim | absīs | absit | absīmus | absītis | absint |
| imperfect | abessem, āforem | abessēs, āforēs | abesset, āforet | abessēmus, āforēmus | abessētis, āforētis | abessent, āforent | |
| perfect | āfuerim | āfuerīs | āfuerit | āfuerīmus | āfuerītis | āfuerint | |
| pluperfect | āfuissem | āfuissēs | āfuisset | āfuissēmus | āfuissētis | āfuissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | abes | — | — | abeste | — |
| future | — | abestō | abestō | — | abestōte | absuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | abesse | āfuisse | āfutūrus esse, āfore | — | — | — | |
| participles | absēns | — | āfutūrus | — | — | — | |
References
- absum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- absum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “absum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe
- to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
- he has been absent five years: quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abest
- to be quite uncivilised: ab omni cultu et humanitate longe abesse (B. G. 1. 1. 3)
- God forbid: quod abominor! (procul absit!)
- to be free from blame: abesse a culpa
- to be almost culpable: prope abesse a culpa
- to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe