Noun: absent
| Singular | absent |
| Plural | absents |
Sample Sentences
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The Applause he met with exceeds all belief of the Absent. [1772, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 30 May]
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That very sense of longing, of yearning for the absent, which 'nostalgia' conveys to us now. [1947, Cecil Day Lewis, Poetic Image:]
Nouns inflected like absent
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
3. Proto-Indo-European *-o
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
5. Proto-Italic *ap
6. Latin abder.
7. Latin ab-
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
10. Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
11. Proto-Indo-European *-t
12. Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
13. Proto-Italic *ezom~*som
14. Old Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom)
15. Old Latin esum
16. Latin sum
17. Latin absum
18. Latin absēnsder.
19. Old French ausentder.
20. Middle French absentbor.
21. ▲
22. Latin absēnsbor.
23. Middle English absent
24. English absent
25. From Middle English absent, from Middle French absent, from Old French ausent, and their source, Latin absens, present participle of absum (“to be away from”), from ab (“away”) + sum (“to be”). See: Middle English Nouns '
absent', Latin Nouns '
absens'.
Verbs referencing "absent"
English Nouns
abessive.