providencia
Portuguese
Verb
providencia
- inflection of providenciar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin prōvidentia (“providence, forethought”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾobiˈdenθja/ [pɾo.β̞iˈð̞ẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /pɾobiˈdensja/ [pɾo.β̞iˈð̞ẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: pro‧vi‧den‧cia
Noun
providencia f (plural providencias)
- providence
- (Spain, law) a resolution by a judge or court in order to direct and continue criminal procedures
Related terms
Further reading
- “providencia”, 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