absque

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈab.skʷe/, [ˈäps̠kʷɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈabs.kwe/, [ˈäbskwe]

absque (+ ablative)

1. without
   • Absque sudore et labore nullum opus perfectum est.

     Without sweat and labor no work is perfected.

2. apart from
3. but for

• “absque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “absque”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• absque 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)
• absque in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.