praesentia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?

Proto-Italic *prai

Proto-Italic *prai-

Latin prae-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti

Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-

Proto-Indo-European *-t

Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt

Proto-Italic *ezom~*som

Archaic Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom)

Old Latin esum

Latin sum

Latin praesum

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin praesēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin praesentia

From praesēns (“present”) + -ia (abstract noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prae̯ˈsɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [preˈs̬ɛn.t͡si.a]

Noun

praesentia f (genitive praesentiae); first declension

1. presence; the state of being present or at hand
2. present (time)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	praesentia	praesentiae
genitive	praesentiae	praesentiārum
dative	praesentiae	praesentiīs
accusative	praesentiam	praesentiās
ablative	praesentiā	praesentiīs
vocative	praesentia	praesentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: presència
• → French: présence
  • Haitian Creole: prezans
  • → Romanian: prezență
• Galician: presenza
• Italian: presenza
• Occitan: preséncia
• Portuguese: presença
• Sicilian: prisenzia
• Spanish: presencia

Adjective

praesentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of praesēns

References

• “praesentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praesentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "praesentia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “praesentia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at present; for the moment: in praesentia, in praesens (tempus)