audiencia

Borrowed from Spanish audiencia. Doublet of audience.

audiencia (plural audiencias)

1. (historical) An appellate court of the Spanish empire.
   • 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 21:

     After Cortés the government of New Spain degenerated under the rule of Nuño de Guzmán, president of the first audiencia, into a brutish exploitation of the Indians.

• audience

Borrowed from Latin audientia (“a hearing, listening”), from audire (“to hear”).^[1] With -encia ending.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒudijɛnt͡sijɒ]
• Hyphenation: au‧di‧en‧cia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

audiencia (plural audienciák)

1. audience (a formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary)

• audiencia in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• audiencia in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): [ˈaudi̯ent͡si̯a]

audiencia f (relational adjective audienčný)

1. audience

• “audiencia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Latin audientia.

• IPA^(key): /auˈdjenθja/ [au̯ˈð̞jẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /auˈdjensja/ [au̯ˈð̞jẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
• Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: au‧dien‧cia

audiencia f (plural audiencias)

1. audience
2. a tribunal of justice of a defined territory which hears its problems, cases and lawsuits

• “audiencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024