audiens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of audiō (“hear, listen”).

Participle

audiēns (genitive audientis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. hearing, listening
2. attending, paying attention to
3. accepting, agreeing, obeying

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	audiēns			audientēs	audientia
Genitive	audientis			audientium
Dative	audientī			audientibus
Accusative	audientem	audiēns		audientēs audientīs	audientia
Ablative	audiente audientī1			audientibus
Vocative	audiēns			audientēs	audientia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Derived terms

• audientia

Descendants

• Catalan: oint
• English: audient
• French: oyant
• Portuguese: ouvinte
• Spanish: oyente

References

• “audiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “audiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make an impression on one's audience: animos audientium permovere, inflammare
    
  • to fill the souls of one's audience with devotion: audientium animos religione perfundere (Liv. 10. 388)
    
  • to obey a person's orders: dicto audientem esse alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to accept battle: potestatem sui facere (alicui) (cf. sect. XII. 9, note audientia...)
    

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audientia.

Noun

audiens m (definite singular audiensen, indefinite plural audienser, definite plural audiensene)

1. an audience (with a person in authority)

References

• “audiens” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audientia.

Noun

audiens m (definite singular audiensen, indefinite plural audiensar, definite plural audiensane)

1. an audience (as above)

References

• “audiens” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.