absis

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.sɪs/

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• Rhymes: -æbsɪs

Noun

absis (plural absides)

1. Alternative spelling of apsis

Anagrams

• basis, bassi, isbas

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈap.sis]

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Noun

absis m (invariable)

1. apse

Further reading

• “absis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “absis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “absis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “absis” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch abscis, from Latin abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscindō. Cognate of Kuala Lumpur Standard Malay absisa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈap.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -sɪs
• Hyphenation: ab‧sis

Noun

absis

1. (geometry) abscissa
   1. the first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes
   2. the horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown

Further reading

• “absis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Verb

absīs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of absum

Adjective

absīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of absus

Noun

absīs

1. dative/ablative plural of absus

References

• “absis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• absis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• absis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “absis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “absis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin