absum
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ab- (“from, away”) + sum (“I am”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
absum (present infinitive abesse, perfect active āfuī, future participle āfutūrus); irregular conjugation
Inflection[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- (I am away): longē sum
References[edit]
- 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
- absum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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