abest

abest is a Latin form of absum, meaning “be away, be absent; be distant”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 253 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.4.4: neque abest suspicio, ut Helvetii arbitrantur, quin ipse sibi mortem consciverit.

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.24: … raque ex parte praeruptum atque asperum, sed tamen paulo leniore fastigio ab ea parte, quae ad Uticam vergit. Abest directo itinere ab Utica paulo amplius passuum milibus in. Sed hoc itinere est fons, quo mare succedit longiu …

Plautus, Amphitruo 2.2.640: sola híc mihi nunc vídeor, quia ílle hinc abést quem ego amó praeter omnes.

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.