absconsa

English

Noun

absconsa

1. (historical) A kind of dark lantern.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: absconsas, absconsât

Verb

absconsa

1. third-person singular past historic of absconser

Latin

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈskon.sa/, [äpˈs̠kõːs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈskon.sa/, [äbˈskɔnsä]

Noun

abscōnsa f (genitive abscōnsae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) absconsa (dark lantern)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abscōnsa	abscōnsae
Genitive	abscōnsae	abscōnsārum
Dative	abscōnsae	abscōnsīs
Accusative	abscōnsam	abscōnsās
Ablative	abscōnsā	abscōnsīs
Vocative	abscōnsa	abscōnsae

Adjective

abscōnsa

1. inflection of abscōnsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈskon.saː/, [äpˈs̠kõːs̠äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈskon.sa/, [äbˈskɔnsä]

Noun

abscōnsā

1. ablative singular of abscōnsa

Adjective

abscōnsā

1. ablative feminine singular of abscōnsus

References

• absconsa 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “absconsus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 6