audiencia

See also: Audiencia, audiència, and audiência

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish audiencia. Doublet of audience.

Noun

audiencia (plural audiencias)

1. (historical) An appellate court of the Spanish empire.
   • 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 21:

     After Cortés the government of New Spain degenerated under the rule of Nuño de Guzmán, president of the first audiencia, into a brutish exploitation of the Indians.

Synonyms

• audience

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audientia (“a hearing, listening”), from audire (“to hear”). With -encia ending.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒudijɛnt͡sijɒ]
• Hyphenation: au‧di‧en‧cia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

audiencia (plural audienciák)

1. audience (a formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	audiencia	audienciák
accusative	audienciát	audienciákat
dative	audienciának	audienciáknak
instrumental	audienciával	audienciákkal
causal-final	audienciáért	audienciákért
translative	audienciává	audienciákká
terminative	audienciáig	audienciákig
essive-formal	audienciaként	audienciákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	audienciában	audienciákban
superessive	audiencián	audienciákon
adessive	audienciánál	audienciáknál
illative	audienciába	audienciákba
sublative	audienciára	audienciákra
allative	audienciához	audienciákhoz
elative	audienciából	audienciákból
delative	audienciáról	audienciákról
ablative	audienciától	audienciáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	audienciáé	audienciáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	audienciáéi	audienciákéi

Possessive forms of audiencia

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	audienciám	audienciáim
2nd person sing.	audienciád	audienciáid
3rd person sing.	audienciája	audienciái
1st person plural	audienciánk	audienciáink
2nd person plural	audienciátok	audienciáitok
3rd person plural	audienciájuk	audienciáik

Further reading

• audiencia in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• audiencia in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /avdient͡sia/, [ˈau̯dient͡sia]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: au‧di‧en‧ci‧a

Noun

audiencia f (relational adjective audienčný)

1. audience

Declension

Declension of audiencia
(pattern ulica)

	singular	plural
nominative	audiencia	audiencie
genitive	audiencie	audiencií
dative	audiencii	audienciám
accusative	audienciu	audiencie
locative	audiencii	audienciách
instrumental	audienciou	audienciami

Further reading

• “audiencia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audientia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /auˈdjenθja/ [au̯ˈð̞jẽn̟.θja] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /auˈdjensja/ [au̯ˈð̞jẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -enθja (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: au‧dien‧cia

Noun

audiencia f (plural audiencias)

1. audience
2. a tribunal of justice of a defined territory which hears its problems, cases and lawsuits

Derived terms

• audiencia al rebelde
• Audiencia Nacional
• audiencia provincial
• audiencia pública
• audiencia territorial
• índice de audiencia
• sala de audiencia
• tener audiencia

Further reading

• “audiencia”, 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