Latin, literally "in (his/her/their) absence" (see absence). By 1831 in English, earlier in legal Latin.
he was sentenced in absentia
imputation
impute
in
in-
-in
in absentia
in custodia legis
in extremis
in facie curiae
in fieri
in forma pauperis
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