praesentia

Latin

Etymology

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Noun

praesentia f (genitive praesentiae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	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
• Galician: presenza
• Italian: presenza
• Occitan: preséncia
• Portuguese: presença
• Spanish: presencia

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) praesentia

1. nominative neuter plural of praesēns
2. accusative neuter plural of praesēns
3. 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’s 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)