absum

From ab- (“from, away”) +‎ sum (“I am”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈab.sum/, [ˈäps̠ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈab.sum/, [ˈäbsum]

absum (present infinitive abesse, perfect active āfuī, future participle āfutūrus); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle

1. I am away, I am absent, I am distant

   Synonym: dēsum

   Antonyms: adsum, stō

• Regularized perfect and supine forms abfuī, abfutūrus etc. occur in Medieval Latin.

• (I am away): longē sum

• → Old High German: abawesen (calque)
  • German: Abwesen
    • ⇒ German: Abwesenheit
• Norwegian Bokmål: abessiv

(deprecated template usage) absum

1. inflection of absus:
   1. nominative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine/neuter singular

(deprecated template usage) absum

1. accusative singular of absus

• “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.
  • to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe
    
  • to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
    
  • he has been absent five years: quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abest
    
  • to be quite uncivilised: ab omni cultu et humanitate longe abesse (B. G. 1. 1. 3)
    
  • God forbid: quod abominor! (procul absit!)
    
  • to be free from blame: abesse a culpa
    
  • to be almost culpable: prope abesse a culpa