audientia

From audiēns, present active participle of audiō (“hear, listen”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯.diˈɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯.d̪iˈɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]

audientia f (genitive audientiae); first declension

1. The act of hearing or listening; attention, heed.
2. The faculty of hearing.
3. A group of listeners, audience.

First-declension noun.

audientia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of audiēns

• “audientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “audientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "audientia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• audientia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to obtain a hearing: audientiam sibi (orationi) facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to accept battle: potestatem sui facere (alicui) (cf. sect. XII. 9, note audientia...)