in absentia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin in absentia (“in absence”).

Prepositional phrase

in absentia

1. (law) While not present; while absent

   The defendant was convicted in absentia after fleeing during the trial.

   • 2004 October 28, Leslie Feinberg, “Denazification in socialist Germany opened door to gay rights”, in Workers World‎^[1]:

     The first chancellor of West Germany, Conrad Adenauer […] continued to keep Hans Globke as his secretary of the chancellery despite protests. […] Even after an East German court indicted Globke in absentia in 1950, Adenauer would not budge.

2. (transferred sense, possibly proscribed) Absent in general; not present.

   Since then, the ex-minister has been in absentia, likely relaxing on his private yacht.

   • 2016, Yuu Kamiya, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 4:

     At Sora’s involuntary acknowledgment of their crew currently in absentia, Shiro nodded.

Translations

while not present

• Arabic: غِيَابًا (ḡiyāban)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 缺席 (zh) (quēxí)

• Dutch: in absentia, bij afwezigheid, bij verstek
• Finnish: poissaolevana
• French: par contumace (fr)
• German: in Abwesenheit, in absentia (does not exist in the criminal procedure of the FRG, but exists in Switzerland and the Republic of Austria; for civil procedure it is not idiomatic but should be circumscribed in the FRG with “es erging ein Versäumnisurteil” etc., see Kontumazentscheidung)
• Greek: ερήμην (el) (erímin)
• Hungarian: távollétében
• Icelandic: í fjarveru, að fjarstöddum
• Indonesian: in absentia
• Polish: in absentia (pl)
• Russian: зао́чно (ru) (zaóčno), в отсу́тствие (ru) (v otsútstvije)
• Turkish: gıyaben (tr)

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin in absentia (“in absence”).

Phrase

in absentia

1. (law) absent

   Synonym: verstek

Further reading

• “in absentia”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin in absentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin apˈsɛn.t͡sja/

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: in ab‧sen‧tia

Adverb

in absentia (not comparable)

1. (law) in absentia (while not present; while absent)
   • 2015, Michał Skwara with Andrzej Grajewski, Agca nie był sam, Katowice: Instytut Gość Niedzielny, →ISBN, page 91:

     Należy podkreślić, że Agca był wówczas nie tylko poszukiwany przez tureckie władze jako domniemany zabójca, ale był osobą skazaną in absentia za zabójstwo przez turecki sąd. […]

     It should be emphasized that Agca was not only wanted by the Turkish authorities as an alleged killer at the time, but was also convicted in absentia for murder by a Turkish court. […]

Further reading

• “in absentia”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)