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Greek
Etymology
Reborrowing from French acrobatie < acrobate, itself from Koine Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs) from ἄκρον (ákron, “peak”) -βάτης (-bátēs, “walker”) (not from ᾰ̓κρόβασις (akróbasis, “support e.g. foot of table”).[1]
For figurative sense, it is a calque of French faire des acrobaties.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akrovaˈsia/
- Hyphenation: α‧κρο‧βα‧σί‧α
Noun
ακροβασία • (akrovasía) f (plural ακροβασίες)
- (gymnastics) acrobatics (the art and the performance)
Η ακροβασία και η σχοινοβασία είναι τέχνες του τσίρκου.- I akrovasía kai i schoinovasía eínai téchnes tou tsírkou.
- Acrobatics and tightrope walking are arts of the circus.
- Synonym: ακροβατισμός (akrovatismós)
- any action or art which involves extreme skill
- (flying) aerial acrobatics, stunt flying
- αεροπορικές ακροβασίες ― aeroporikés akrovasíes ― aerial acrobatics
- (figuratively) acrobatics, risky behaviour, speech or actions based on unsound or dubious arguments
- πολιτικές ακροβασίες ― politikés akrovasíes ― political acrobatics
- λεκτικές/ρητορικές ακροβασίες ― lektikés/ritorikés akrovasíes ― speech/rhetoric acrobatics (sophistries)
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