absens

• apsēns

Present active participle of absum (“be away from, absent”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈap.sẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈab.sens]

absēns (genitive absentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. absent, missing, away, away from, distant, gone, gone away
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.83:

     [...] illum absēns absentem auditque videtque; [...].

     [Although] he has gone away, she [still] hears and sees [her] missing [love].
     (Nominative and accusative forms side-by-side: The poetic collocation doubly emphasizes how much Dido misses Aeneas, and how he remains in her thoughts even when he is away.)

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• absentia
• absentīvus
• absentō
• absum

• “absens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “absens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "absens", 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)
• “absens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.