avogacía

Attested since at least since 1416. Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin advocātia, from Latin advocātus (“attorney”).

• IPA^(key): [aβoɣaˈθiɐ]

avogacía f (plural avogacías)

1. advocacy, attorneyship
   • 1416, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 23:

     que pagasen a Gomes Rodriges, bachiller, os quatroçentos moravedis, brancas en tres dineiros, que avia de aver por rason de seu selario de avocaçia deste dito anno.

     that they must pay Gomes Rodríguez, bachelor, the four hundred maravedis, in brancas, each one three denarii, that he must have because of his salary of advocacy for this said year

2. a lawyer's office

• avogado

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “avocaçia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “avocaçia”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “avogacía”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “avogacía”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega