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English
Etymology
From Latin acroāsis, from Ancient Greek ἀκρόᾱσις (akróāsis, “a hearing or lecture”), from ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai, “listen”).
Noun
acroasis (plural acroases)
- An oral discourse.
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Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀκρόᾱσις (akróāsis, “a hearing or lecture”).
Noun
acroāsis f (genitive acroāsis); third declension
- public lecture
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
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