absconder
English
Etymology
From abscond + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#ABSCONDER.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈskɑn.dɚ/, /æbˈzkɑn.dɚ/Category:English 3-syllable words#ABSCONDERCategory:English 3-syllable words#ABSCONDERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ABSCONDER
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æbˈskɒn.də/Category:English 3-syllable words#ABSCONDERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ABSCONDER
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#ABSCONDERAudio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɒndə(ɹ)#ABSCONDERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒndə(ɹ)/3 syllables#ABSCONDER
- Hyphenation: ab‧scon‧der
Noun
absconder (plural absconders)Category:English lemmas#ABSCONDERCategory:English nouns#ABSCONDERCategory:English countable nouns#ABSCONDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ABSCONDERCategory:Pages with entries#ABSCONDERCategory:Pages with 4 entries#ABSCONDER
- A person who absconds. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
- 1696, Considerations upon the Bill for the Relief of Poor Prisoners,:
- […] 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ABSCONDER
- 1909, O. Henry, “The Guardian of the Accolade”, in Roads of Destiny, Doubleday Page, page 33:
- What else could it all mean but that Mr. Robert Weymouth was an absconder—was about to fly with the bank’s remaining funds […]Category:English terms with quotations#ABSCONDER
- 1910, Jack London, “That Spot”, in Lost Face, New York: Macmillan, page 112:
- Steve and I sneaked immediately, like beaten curs, like cowards, like absconders from justice.Category:English terms with quotations#ABSCONDER
- 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ABSCONDER
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#ABSCONDERCategory:French terms derived from Latin#ABSCONDER 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
- IPA(key): /ap.skɔ̃.de/Category:French 3-syllable words#ABSCONDERCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#ABSCONDER
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Verb
absconderCategory:French lemmas#ABSCONDERCategory:French verbs#ABSCONDERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#ABSCONDERCategory:Pages with entries#ABSCONDERCategory:Pages with 4 entries#ABSCONDER
- (regionalCategory:Regional French#ABSCONDER) to set (said of the Sun at sunset)
- Synonym: se coucher
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | absconder | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 LatinCategory:Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin#ABSCONDERCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#ABSCONDER abscondere (“to hide, conceal”). Doublet of esconderCategory:Portuguese doublets#ABSCONDER. 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)Category:Portuguese lemmas#ABSCONDERCategory:Portuguese verbs#ABSCONDERCategory:Portuguese verbs ending in -er#ABSCONDERCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#ABSCONDERCategory:Pages with entries#ABSCONDERCategory:Pages with 4 entries#ABSCONDER
- (rareCategory:Portuguese terms with rare senses#ABSCONDER, formalCategory:Portuguese formal terms#ABSCONDER) synonym of esconder
Conjugation
Further reading
- “absconder”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “absconder”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from Latin#ABSCONDERCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#ABSCONDER abscondō. Doublet of esconderCategory:Spanish doublets#ABSCONDER.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abskonˈdeɾ/ [aβ̞s.kõn̪ˈd̪eɾ]Category:Spanish 3-syllable words#ABSCONDERCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#ABSCONDER
- Rhymes: -eɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ#ABSCONDERCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ/3 syllables#ABSCONDER
- Syllabification: abs‧con‧der
Verb
absconder (first-person singular present abscondo, first-person singular preterite abscondí, past participle abscondido)Category:Spanish lemmas#ABSCONDERCategory:Spanish verbs#ABSCONDERCategory:Spanish verbs ending in -er#ABSCONDERCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#ABSCONDERCategory:Pages with entries#ABSCONDERCategory:Pages with 4 entries#ABSCONDER
Conjugation
Further reading
- “absconder”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025