praesentia

Latin

Etymology

From praesēns (“present”) +‎ -ia (abstract noun suffix).

Noun

praesentia f (genitive praesentiae); first declension

1. presence; the state of being present or at hand
2. present (time)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	praesentia	praesentiae
genitive	praesentiae	praesentiārum
dative	praesentiae	praesentiīs
accusative	praesentiam	praesentiās
ablative	praesentiā	praesentiīs
vocative	praesentia	praesentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: presència
• → French: présence
  • → Romanian: prezență
• Galician: presenza
• Italian: presenza
• Occitan: preséncia
• Portuguese: presença
• Sicilian: prisenzia
• Spanish: presencia

Adjective

praesentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of praesēns

References

• “praesentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praesentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praesentia 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)
• praesentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at present; for the moment: in praesentia, in praesens (tempus)