absentia

From Latin absentia (“being away, absence”), from absēns (“absent”), present active participle of absum (“I am away or absent”); compare absent.

• IPA^(key): /æbˈsɛnt͡ʃi.ə/, /æbˈsɛnt͡ʃə/, /æbˈsɛnʃə/, /æbˈsɛnʃi.ə/

absentia

1. absence

• 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.

• absent

• absentia epileptica

• Batesian, basanite

absentia (plural absentias)

1. absence

From absēns (“absent”) +‎ -ia, present active participle of absum (“I am away or absent”), from ab (“from, away from”) + sum (“I am”).

• absentia: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [apˈsɛn.ti.a]
• absentia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [abˈsɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]
• absentiā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [apˈsɛn.ti.aː]
• absentiā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [abˈsɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]

absentia f (genitive absentiae); first declension

1. absence

First-declension noun.

• “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.