absum

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From ab- (“from, away”) +‎ sum (“I am”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈap.sũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈab.sum] ==== Verb ==== absum (present infinitive abesse, perfect active āfuī, future active participle āfutūrus); irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, no gerund to be away, to be absent, to be distant Synonym: dēsum Antonyms: adsum, stō (of length or time) to stretch, be away from, be distant from (with ab + ablative) to be forbidden, be unpleasant, unwarranted for, vile ===== Usage notes ===== Regularized perfect and supine forms abfuī, abfutūrus etc. occur in Medieval Latin. ===== Conjugation ===== 1Old Latin or in poetry. ===== Synonyms ===== (I am away): longē sum ===== Descendants ===== Borrowings: ⇒ Norwegian Bokmål: abessiv → Old High German: abawesen (calque) German: abwesend ⇒ German: Abwesenheit === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== absum inflection of absus: nominative/vocative neuter singular accusative masculine/neuter singular ==== Noun ==== absum accusative singular of absus === References === “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.