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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative praesentia praesentiae
Genitive praesentiae praesentiārum
Dative praesentiae praesentiīs
Accusative praesentiam praesentiās
Ablative praesentiā praesentiīs
Vocative praesentia praesentiae

Descendants

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) at present; for the moment: in praesentia, in praesens (tempus)
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