Where does “absenteeism” come from?
Absenteeism derives from English absentee, from French absent with the agentive suffix -é, from Middle French absent, from Latin absens (absent) with the participial suffix -atus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -tós.
absenteeism (English): The state of being absent, especially frequently...
Definitions
- The state of being absent, especially frequently...
Ancestry of “absenteeism”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | absentee | A person who is absent from his or her... |
| 2 | English | absent | Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place;... |
| 3 | Middle English | absent | — |
| 4 | Middle French | absent | — |
| 5 | Old French | ausent | — |
| 6 | Latin | absēns | absent, missing, away, away from, distant, gone, gone away |
| 7 | Latin | absum | I am away, I am absent, I am distant |
| 8 | Latin | ab- | from, away, away from; off; at a distance |
| 9 | Latin | āb | from, away from, out of |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | *ab | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | apó | — |