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

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

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Latin agēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin agentiabor.

Spanish agencia

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)
   • 2025 July 7, Sophie Tanno, “Aumentan los llamados para prohibir al partido ultraderechista AfD en Alemania, pese a su creciente popularidad”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     En mayo, la agencia de inteligencia interna del país clasificó formalmente a la AfD como una entidad extremista que representa una amenaza para la democracia.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (Philippines) pawnshop

   Synonym: casa de empeños

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025