agencia

See also: agenciá, agència, and agência

Catalan

Verb

agencia

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈxenθja/ [aˈxẽn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aˈxensja/ [aˈxẽn.sja]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -enθja
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ensja
• Syllabification: a‧gen‧cia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin agentia.

Noun

agencia f (plural agencias)

1. agency (the office or function of an agent)
2. agency (an establishment engaged in doing business for another)
3. branch (a location of an organization)

   Synonym: sucursal

4. agency (administrative unit of government)
5. (Philippines) pawnshop

Derived terms

• agencia de empleo
• agencia de noticias
• agencia de seguros
• agencia de viajes
• agencia matrimonial
• agenciar
• contrato de agencia

 

Related terms

• agente

 

Descendants

• → Hiligaynon: ahensya
• → Tagalog: ahensiya

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

agencia

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

Further reading

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