acroasis

English

Etymology

From Latin acroāsis, from Ancient Greek ἀκρόᾱσις (akróāsis, “a hearing or lecture”), from ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai, “listen”).

Noun

acroasis (plural acroases)

1. An oral discourse.

Synonyms

• acroama

Further reading

• “acroasis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀκρόᾱσις (akróāsis, “a hearing or lecture”).

Noun

acroāsis f (genitive acroāsis); third declension

1. public lecture

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	acroāsis	acroāsēs
genitive	acroāsis	acroāsium
dative	acroāsī	acroāsibus
accusative	acroāsin	acroāsēs acroāsīs
ablative	acroāsī	acroāsibus
vocative	acroāsis	acroāsēs

Further reading

• “acroasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “acroasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “acroasis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers