acroasis

From Ancient Greek ἀκρόασις (akróasis, “a hearing or lecture”), from ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai, “listen”).

acroasis (plural acroases)

1. An oral discourse.

• acroama

• acroasis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

From Ancient Greek ἀκρόασις (akróasis, “a hearing or lecture”).

acroāsis f (genitive acroāsis); third declension

1. A public lecture.

Third declension 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