agência

See also: agencia, agenciá, and agència

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian agenzia or French agence, both from Medieval Latin agentia. By surface analysis, agir +‎ -ência.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈʒẽ.si.ɐ/ [aˈʒẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /aˈʒẽ.sjɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈʒẽ.si.ɐ/ [aˈʒẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /aˈʒẽ.sjɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈʒẽ.si.a/ [aˈʒẽ.sɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /aˈʒẽ.sja/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈʒẽ.sjɐ/

• Rhymes: -ẽsiɐ, (faster pronunciation) -ẽsjɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧gên‧ci‧a

Noun

agência f (plural agências)

1. agency (capacity of individuals to act independently)
2. agency (establishment engaged in doing business for another)

   agência imobiliária ― real estate agency

   agência funerária ― funerary home

Derived terms

• agenciar

Related terms

• agente

Further reading

• “agência”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026