abessent

abessent is a Latin form of absum, meaning “be away, be absent; be distant”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.17.2: … ercedere, neque esse quicquam negotii, cum prima legio in castra venisset reliquaeque legiones magnum spatium abessent, hanc sub sarcinis adoriri;

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.