agentia

See also: Agentia

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

agentia

1. plural of agens

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɡeːn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈd͡ʒɛn.t͡si.a]

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 agēntia

From agēns (“doing, acting, making”) + -ia.

Noun

agēntia f (genitive agēntiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) ability

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	agēntia	agēntiae
genitive	agēntiae	agēntiārum
dative	agēntiae	agēntiīs
accusative	agēntiam	agēntiās
ablative	agēntiā	agēntiīs
vocative	agēntia	agēntiae

Descendants

• Catalan: agència
• English: agency
• French: agence
  • → Turkish: ajans
• Italian: agenzia
  • → Bulgarian: аге́нция (agéncija)
  • → Portuguese: agência
• Romanian: agenție
• Spanish: agencia
  • → Hiligaynon: ahensya
  • → Tagalog: ahensiya

Etymology 2

Participle

agentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of agēns

References

• "agentia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)