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English
Etymology
From Latin acroāma.
Noun
acroama (plural acroamata)
- rhetorical declamation
- esoteric teaching that was not to be written down
References
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀκρόαμα (akróama, “something heard”).
Pronunciation
Noun
acroāma n (genitive acroāmatis); third declension
- Anything heard, especially anything heard for entertainment, such as a play or musical piece.
- performer, such as an actor or musician.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
References
- “acroama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acroama”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acroama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “acroama”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “acroama”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin