policía
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin politīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]policía f (plural policías)
- police (a civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order)
Noun
[edit]policía m or f by sense (plural policías)
- police officer (a member of a police force)
- Synonym: garda
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “policía”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin politīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /poliˈθia/ [po.liˈθi.a] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /poliˈsia/ [po.liˈsi.a] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ia
- Syllabification: po‧li‧cí‧a
Noun
[edit]policía f (plural policías)
- Civility, polity, public order, police, fineness, neatness, urbanity
- police, police department, police force, police service
- Synonym: (informal) poli
- 2025 July 14, Jeremy Diamond and Kareem Khadder, ““¿Por qué no previenen el terrorismo de los colonos?”: Palestinos denuncian a las FDI tras brutal muerte de un estadounidense”, in CNN en Español[1], archived from the original on 1 August 2025:
- La unidad de la policía fronteriza salió inmediatamente a buscar a los colonos tras ser alertada por CNN.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
[edit]policía m or f by sense (plural policías)
- police officer (a member of a police force)
- Synonyms: agente, agente de policía, poli (informal), tombo (informal, South America), aguacate (informal, Colombia)
- 2025 June 6, “¿Quién es Kilmar Ábrego García, el hombre devuelto a EE.UU. tras ser deportado a El Salvador?”, in CNN en Español[2], archived from the original on 18 July 2025:
- De acuerdo con documentos judiciales, Ábrego García había sido inicialmente detenido en 2018 por policías en Maryland cuando estaba fuera de un Home Depot junto a otros hombres.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]- guardia
- gendarme
- carabinero
- Appendix:Spanish nouns that have different meanings depending on their gender
Further reading
[edit]- “policía”, 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
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