in absentia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin in absentia (“in absence”).

Prepositional phrase

in absentia

1. (law) While not present; while absent

   The defendant was convicted in absentia after fleeing during the trial.

   • 2004 October 28, Leslie Feinberg, “Denazification in socialist Germany opened door to gay rights”, in Workers World‎^[1]:

     The first chancellor of West Germany, w:Conrad Adenauer […] continued to keep w:Hans Globke as his secretary of the chancellery despite protests. […] Even after an East German court indicted Globke in absentia in 1950, Adenauer would not budge.

2. (transferred sense, possibly proscribed) Absent in general; not present.

   Since then, the ex-minister has been in absentia, likely relaxing on his private yacht.

   • 2016, Yuu Kamiya, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 4:

     At Sora’s involuntary acknowledgment of their crew currently in absentia, Shiro nodded.

Translations

while not present

• Arabic: غِيَابًا (ḡiyāban)
• Dutch: in absentia, bij afwezigheid, bij verstek
• Finnish: poissaolevana
• French: par contumace (fr)
• German: in Abwesenheit, in absentia (does not exist in the criminal procedure of the FRG, but exists in Switzerland and the Republic of Austria; for civil procedure it is not idiomatic but should be circumscribed in the FRG with “es erging ein Versäumnisurteil” etc., see w:de:Kontumazentscheidung)
• Greek: ερήμην (el) (erímin)
• Hungarian: távollétében
• Icelandic: í fjarveru, að fjarstöddum
• Russian: зао́чно (ru) (zaóčno), в отсу́тствие (ru) (v otsútstvije)
• Turkish: gıyaben (tr)