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 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) 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 Latin) IPA(key): [apˈsɛn.ti.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [abˈsɛn.t͡si.a] absentiā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [apˈsɛn.ti.aː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [abˈsɛn.t͡si.a] === Noun === absentia f (genitive absentiae); first declension absence ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === 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.