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Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai) + -σις (-sis)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kró.aː.sis/ → /aˈkro.a.sis/ → /aˈkro.a.sis/
Noun
ἀκρόᾱσῐς • (akróāsis) f (genitive ἀκροᾱ́σεως); third declension
- hearing, listening
- obedience
- (Byzantine) session (of a council)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἀκρόασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀκρόασις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἀκρόασις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “ἀκρόασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.