Where does “absence” come from?

absence (French) comes from Latin absentia, from Latin absēns, from Latin absum, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.

absence (French): absence (state of being absent or withdrawn)

Definitions

  1. absence (state of being absent or withdrawn)

Ancestry of “absence”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinabsentiaabsence
2Latinabsēnsabsent, missing, away, away from, distant, gone, gone away
3LatinabsumI am away, I am absent, I am distant
4Latinab-from, away, away from; off; at a distance
5Latinābfrom, away from, out of
6Proto-Germanic*ab—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—

Words derived from “absence”

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