Latin

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.

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

Descendants

Participle

audientia

1. nominative neuter plural of audiēns
2. accusative neuter plural of audiēns
3. 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “audientia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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  • (ambiguous) to accept battle: potestatem sui facere (alicui) (cf. sect. XII. 9, note audientia...)