different between absentia vs absencee

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æb?s?n(t)?i.?/, /æb?s?n(t)??/

Noun

absentia

1. 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)

1. absence

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab?sen.ti.a/, [äp?s??n?t?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap?sen.t?si.a/, [?p?s?nt??s?i?]

Noun

absentia f (genitive absentiae); first declension

1. 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