licencia

See also: licenciá

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish licencia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liˈsensja/, [liˈsẽn.ʃa]
• Hyphenation: li‧cen‧cia

Noun

licencia

1. license (US); licence (UK, Canada, Australia)

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

licencia

1. third-person singular past historic of licencier

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /liˈθenθja/ [liˈθẽn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /liˈsensja/ [liˈsẽn.sja]
• Rhymes: -enθja
• Rhymes: -ensja
• Syllabification: li‧cen‧cia

Etymology 1

From Latin licentia.

Noun

licencia f (plural licencias)

1. license
2. permission

   Synonym: permiso

3. leave (absence from work)

   Synonym: permiso

4. licentiate (degree)

   Synonym: licenciatura

Derived terms

• licencia de conducir
• licencia de manejo
• licencia poética

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: lisensya, lisensiya
• → Tagalog: lisensya
• → Tepecano: liseʹnsia

Etymology 2

Verb

licencia

1. inflection of licenciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “licencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28