acroasis

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

acroasis (plural acroases)

  1. An oral discourse.

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Further reading[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

acroāsis f (genitive acroāsis); third declension

  1. public lecture

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative acroāsis acroāsēs
Genitive acroāsis acroāsium
Dative acroāsī acroāsibus
Accusative acroāsin acroāsēs
acroāsīs
Ablative acroāsī acroāsibus
Vocative acroāsis acroāsēs

Further reading[edit]

  • 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