absconder
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈskɑn.dɚ/, /æbˈzkɑn.dɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æbˈskɒn.də/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: ab‧scon‧der
Noun
absconder (plural absconders)
- A person who absconds. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
- 1696, Considerations upon the Bill for the Relief of Poor Prisoners,[1]:
- […] unless such an Act of Grace do reach insolvent Absconders, who to shun the Cruelty of their severe Creditors confine themselves out of their Reach, ’tis humbly conceived, ’twill be but half an Act of Grace.
- 1910, Jack London, “That Spot”, in Lost Face[3], New York: Macmillan, page 112:
- Steve and I sneaked immediately, like beaten curs, like cowards, like absconders from justice.
- 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child[4], Knopf Canada, Part Three, Chapter 1:
- He smiled at the view over the hedge, at the other front gardens, at the approaching Rover and then its driver, squinting in a rictus of his own against the evening sun, and making Paul feel again like an intruder, or now perhaps an absconder.
Translations
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abscondere (“to hide”). According to the Trésor de la langue française, attested since the 16th century, and a doublet of the then-contemporary abscondre. Cognate with the (now obsolete) French esconcer (“to set (said of the Sun)”), and Picard esconser (“to set (said of the Sun)”).
Pronunciation
Verb
absconder
- (regional) to set (said of the Sun at sunset)
- Synonym: se coucher
Conjugation
infinitive | simple | absconder | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | abscondant /ap.skɔ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | abscondé /ap.skɔ̃.de/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/ |
abscondes /ap.skɔ̃d/ |
absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/ |
abscondons /ap.skɔ̃.dɔ̃/ |
abscondez /ap.skɔ̃.de/ |
abscondent /ap.skɔ̃d/ |
imperfect | abscondais /ap.skɔ̃.dɛ/ |
abscondais /ap.skɔ̃.dɛ/ |
abscondait /ap.skɔ̃.dɛ/ |
abscondions /ap.skɔ̃.djɔ̃/ |
abscondiez /ap.skɔ̃.dje/ |
abscondaient /ap.skɔ̃.dɛ/ | |
past historic2 | abscondai /ap.skɔ̃.de/ |
abscondas /ap.skɔ̃.da/ |
absconda /ap.skɔ̃.da/ |
abscondâmes /ap.skɔ̃.dam/ |
abscondâtes /ap.skɔ̃.dat/ |
abscondèrent /ap.skɔ̃.dɛʁ/ | |
future | absconderai /ap.skɔ̃.dʁe/ |
absconderas /ap.skɔ̃.dʁa/ |
abscondera /ap.skɔ̃.dʁa/ |
absconderons /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
absconderez /ap.skɔ̃.dʁe/ |
absconderont /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | absconderais /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɛ/ |
absconderais /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɛ/ |
absconderait /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɛ/ |
absconderions /ap.skɔ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
absconderiez /ap.skɔ̃.də.ʁje/ |
absconderaient /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/ |
abscondes /ap.skɔ̃d/ |
absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/ |
abscondions /ap.skɔ̃.djɔ̃/ |
abscondiez /ap.skɔ̃.dje/ |
abscondent /ap.skɔ̃d/ |
imperfect2 | abscondasse /ap.skɔ̃.das/ |
abscondasses /ap.skɔ̃.das/ |
abscondât /ap.skɔ̃.da/ |
abscondassions /ap.skɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃/ |
abscondassiez /ap.skɔ̃.da.sje/ |
abscondassent /ap.skɔ̃.das/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/ |
— | abscondons /ap.skɔ̃.dɔ̃/ |
abscondez /ap.skɔ̃.de/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
Further reading
- “absconder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- abscondre (archaism)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abscondere (“to hide, conceal”). Doublet of esconder. The adjective absconso derives from the participle of the same Latin verb, and is more commonly used.
Verb
absconder (first-person singular present abscondo, first-person singular preterite abscondi, past participle abscondido)
Conjugation
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abscondō. Doublet of esconder.
Pronunciation
Verb
absconder (first-person singular present abscondo, first-person singular preterite abscondí, past participle abscondido)
- (obsolete, transitive) to hide
- Synonym: esconder
Conjugation
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Further reading
- “absconder”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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