agencia
See also: agenciá, agència, and agência
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈxenθja/ [aˈxẽn̟.θja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /aˈxensja/ [aˈxẽn.sja]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -enθja
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ensja
- Syllabification: a‧gen‧cia
Etymology 1
From Latin agentia.
Noun
agencia f (plural agencias)
- agency (the office or function of an agent)
- agency (an establishment engaged in doing business for another)
- branch (a location of an organization)
- Synonym: sucursal
- agency (administrative unit of government)
- (Philippines) pawnshop
Derived terms
- agencia de empleo
- agencia de noticias
- agencia de viajes
- agencia matrimonial
- agenciar
Related terms
- agente
Descendants
- → Hiligaynon: ahensya
- → Tagalog: ahensiya
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
agencia
- inflection of agenciar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “agencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014