acroasis

From Latin acroāsis, from Ancient Greek ἀκρόᾱσις (akróāsis, “a hearing or lecture”), from ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai, “listen”).

acroasis (plural acroases)

1. An oral discourse.

• acroama

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “acroasis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

From Ancient Greek ἀκρόᾱσις (akróāsis, “a hearing or lecture”).

acroāsis f (genitive acroāsis); third declension

1. public lecture

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “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