licencia

See also: licenciá

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

licencia

1. third-person singular past historic of licencier

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /liˈθenθja/ [liˈθẽn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /liˈsensja/ [liˈsẽn.sja]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -enθja
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ensja
• Syllabification: li‧cen‧cia

Etymology 1

From Latin licentia.

Noun

licencia f (plural licencias)

1. license
2. permission

   Synonym: permiso

3. leave (absence from work)

   Synonym: permiso

4. licentiate (degree)

   Synonym: licenciatura

Derived terms

• licencia de conducir
• licencia de manejo
• licencia poética

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: lisensya, lisensiya
• → Tagalog: lisensya
• → Tepecano: liseʹnsia

Etymology 2

Verb

licencia

1. inflection of licenciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “licencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014