absens

absens is a Latin form of absum, meaning “be away, be absent; be distant”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine or present active participle vocative singular masculine or present active participle nominative singular feminine or present active participle vocative singular feminine.

Found 151 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.85: … novi generis imperia constitui, ut idem ad portas urbanis praesideat rebus et duas bellicosissimas provincias absens tot annis obtineat; in se iura magistratuum commutari, ne ex praetura et consulatu, ut semper, sed per paucos …

Martial, Epigrammata 10.92.17: Absens sacerdos; vos putate praesentem

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.