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

Further reading

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).

Case 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
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