audientia

Latin

Etymology

From audiēns, present active participle of audiō (“hear, listen”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /au̯.diˈen.ti.a/, [äu̯d̪iˈɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯.diˈen.t͡si.a/, [äu̯d̪iˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

audientia f (genitive audientiae); first declension

1. The act of hearing or listening; attention, heed.
2. The faculty of hearing.
3. A group of listeners, audience.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	audientia	audientiae
Genitive	audientiae	audientiārum
Dative	audientiae	audientiīs
Accusative	audientiam	audientiās
Ablative	audientiā	audientiīs
Vocative	audientia	audientiae

Related terms

• audiēns
• audiō
• audītiō
• audītor
• audītōriālis
• audītōrium
• audītōrius
• audītus

Descendants

• → Catalan: audiència
• → English: audience
• → French: audience
• → Galician: audiencia
• → German: Audienz
• → Italian: udienza (calque)
• → Portuguese: audiência
• → Romanian: audiență
• → Russian: аудие́нция (audijéncija)
• → Sicilian: adenzia
• → Spanish: audiencia

Participle

audientia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of audiēns

References

• “audientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “audientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• audientia 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)
• audientia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
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