absis

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.sɪs/

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• Rhymes: -æbsɪs

absis (plural absides)

1. Alternative spelling of apsis.

• basis, bassi, isbas

Learned borrowing from Latin absis, variant form of Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch, vault”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈap.sis]

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absis m (invariable)

1. apse

• “absis”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “absis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “absis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “absis” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Dutch abscis.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈapsis/ [ˈap̚.sɪs]
• Rhymes: -apsis
• Hyphenation: ab‧sis

absis (plural absis-absis)

1. abscissa:
   1. (geometry, surveying) the first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes
   2. (geometry, surveying) the horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown

• “absis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

absīs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of absum

absīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of absus

absīs

1. dative/ablative plural of absus

• “absis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "absis", 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)
• absis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “absis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “absis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin