acroasis

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