Where does “absenter” come from?
absenter (French) comes from French absent, from Old French ausent, from Latin absēns, from Latin absum, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.
absenter (French): to leave; to absent oneself
Definitions
- to leave; to absent oneself
Ancestry of “absenter”, step by step
absenter traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French absent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | absent | absent; absent-minded; absentee; missing person |
| 2 | Old French | ausent | — |
| 3 | Latin | absēns | absent, missing, away, away from, distant, gone, gone away |
| 4 | Latin | absum | I am away, I am absent, I am distant |
| 5 | Latin | ab- | from, away, away from; off; at a distance |
| 6 | Latin | āb | from, away from, out of |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *ab | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | apó | — |
via Latin absentare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | absentare | present active infinitive of absentō;... |
| 2 | Latin | absento | I cause someone to be absent, I send away; I am... |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |