attorney

Etymology
From, from , past participle of , , , in the sense of "one appointed or constituted".

Noun

 * 1)  A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
 * 2)  One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
 * 3)  A solicitor.
 * 4)  An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.
 * 5)  spp.
 * 6) A prosecutor
 * 1)  spp.
 * 2) A prosecutor

Usage notes

 * In the "agent" sense, the word is now used to refer to nonlawyers usually only in fixed phrases such as attorney-in-fact or power of attorney.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُحَامٍ, مُحَامِيَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: محامي
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: юры́ст, юры́стка, адвака́т
 * Bulgarian:, юри́стка, , адвока́тка
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏗᏘᏲᎯᎯ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, , ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:, vogado, leterado
 * Georgian: ადვოკატი, ვექილი
 * German:
 * Greek:, νομικός σύμβουλος
 * Ancient: δικήγορος, πρόδικος
 * Hebrew:, פְּרַקְלִיטָה, , עורכת דין
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: lögfræðingur
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: aturnae
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: adivogádu
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: cognitor, causidicus
 * Occitan:
 * Plautdietsch: Aunwault, Ofkot
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: avogadu
 * Serbo-Croatian:,  ,
 * Slovak: právník, právnička,, advokátka
 * Slovene: odvetnik, odvetnica, advokat, advokatka
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: manananggol,
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Urdu: وکیل
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: אַדוואָקאַט


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: oikeudenkäyntiasiamies,
 * French:
 * Georgian: რწმუნებული, პროკურორი
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: fulltrúi, umboðsmaður
 * Norman: protchuleux
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Ukrainian:

Verb

 * 1)  To work as a legal attorney.
 * 2)  To provide with a legal attorney.