Middle English word absence comes from Latin fui, Latin ab, and later Latin absum (I am away, I am absent, I am distant.)

Detailed word origin of absence

Dictionary entry	Language	Definition
fui	Latin (lat)
ab	Latin (lat)	(source of action or event) by, of. (time) after, since. At, on, in. From, away from, out of.
absum	Latin (lat)	I am away, I am absent, I am distant.
absentem	Latin (lat)
absentia	Latin (lat)	Absence.
absent	Old French (fro)
absence	Middle English (enm)	Absence.

Words with the same origin as absence