abesset

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

Found 81 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.22.1: Prima luce, cum summus mons a [Lucio] Labieno teneretur, ipse ab hostium castris non longius mille et quingentis passibus abesset neque, ut postea ex captivis comperit, aut ipsius adventus aut Labieni cognitus esset,

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.