abesse

abesse is a Latin form of absum, meaning “be away, be absent; be distant”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 209 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.41.5: Septimo die, cum iter non intermitteret, ab exploratoribus certior factus est Ariovisti copias a nostris milia passuum IIII et XX abesse.

Martial, Epigrammata 7.7.6: Abesse nostris non tamen potes votis.

All forms of absum (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.