audiens

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Etymology

From English audience, from Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: au‧di‧èns

Noun

audièns (first-person possessive audiensku, second-person possessive audiensmu, third-person possessive audiensnya)

  1. audience

Further reading

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. (+ dative) accepting, agreeing, obeying
    alicui dicto audiens ― obeying the orders of someone
    dicto audiens non esse ― disobeying

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

Descendants

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

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, 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...)
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

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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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audientia.

Noun

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

  1. an audience (as above)

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