From ab- (“from, away”) + sum (“I am”)
absum
- I am away, I am absent, I am distant
Conjugation of absum (highly irregular, suppletive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, active only)
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indicative
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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active
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present
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absum
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abes
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abest
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absumus
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abestis
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absunt
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imperfect
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aberam
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aberās
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aberat
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aberāmus
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aberātis
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aberant
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future
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aberō
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aberis, abere
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aberit
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aberimus
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aberitis
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aberunt
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perfect
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āfuī
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āfuistī
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āfuit
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āfuimus
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āfuistis
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āfuērunt, āfuēre
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pluperfect
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āfueram
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āfuerās
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āfuerat
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āfuerāmus
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āfuerātis
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āfuerant
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future perfect
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āfuerō
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āfueris
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āfuerit
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āfuerimus
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āfueritis
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āfuerint
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subjunctive
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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active
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present
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absim
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absīs
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absit
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absīmus
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absītis
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absint
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imperfect
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abessem, āforem
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abessēs, āforēs
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abesset, āforet
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abessēmus, āforēmus
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abessētis, āforētis
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abessent, āforent
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perfect
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āfuerim
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āfuerīs
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āfuerit
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āfuerīmus
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āfuerītis
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āfuerint
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pluperfect
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āfuissem
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āfuissēs
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āfuisset
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āfuissēmus
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āfuissētis
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āfuissent
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imperative
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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active
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present
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—
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abes
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—
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—
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abeste
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—
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future
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—
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abestō
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abestō
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—
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abestōte
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absuntō
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non-finite forms
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active
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passive
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present
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perfect
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future
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present
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perfect
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future
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infinitives
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abesse
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āfuisse
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āfutūrum esse, āfore
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participles
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absēns
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—
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āfutūrus
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—
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—
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- Regularized perfect and supine forms abfuī, abfutūrus etc. occur in Medieval Latin.
- “absum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “absum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- absum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe
- to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
- he has been absent five years: quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abest
- to be quite uncivilised: ab omni cultu et humanitate longe abesse (B. G. 1. 1. 3)
- God forbid: quod abominor! (procul absit!)
- to be free from blame: abesse a culpa
- to be almost culpable: prope abesse a culpa