absentia

English

Etymology

From Latin absentia (“being away, absence”), from absēns (“absent”), present active participle of absum (“I am away or absent”); compare absent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æbˈsɛnt͡ʃi.ə/, /æbˈsɛnt͡ʃə/, /æbˈsɛnʃə/, /æbˈsɛnʃi.ə/

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.

Related terms

• absent

See also

• absentia epileptica

Anagrams

• Batesian, basanite

Interlingua

Noun

absentia (plural absentias)

1. absence

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• absentia: (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈsen.ti.a/, [äpˈs̠ɛn̪t̪iä]
• absentia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈsen.t͡si.a/, [äbˈsɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
• absentiā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈsen.ti.aː/, [äpˈs̠ɛn̪t̪iäː]
• absentiā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈsen.t͡si.a/, [äbˈsɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

absentia f (genitive absentiae); first declension

1. absence

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	absentia	absentiae
Genitive	absentiae	absentiārum
Dative	absentiae	absentiīs
Accusative	absentiam	absentiās
Ablative	absentiā	absentiīs
Vocative	absentia	absentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: absència, sense
• Dalmatian: siansa
• Old French: absence, sans
  • → English: absence
  • French: absence, sans
• Friulian: cence
• Istriot: sensa
• Italian: senza, assenza
• → Luxembourgish: Absenz
• Occitan: sens
• Portuguese: ausência
• Romanian: absență
• Romansch: senza, sainza
• Sicilian: senza
• Spanish: ausencia, absencia
• → Middle Welsh: absenn
  • Welsh: absen

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
• absentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.