ἀκρόασις

ἀκρόασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai) +‎ -σις (-sis)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.kró.aː.sis/ → /aˈkro.a.sis/ → /aˈkro.a.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.kró.aː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈkro.a.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈkro.a.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈkro.a.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈkro.a.sis/

Noun

ἀκρόᾱσῐς • (akróāsis) f (genitive ἀκροᾱ́σεως); third declension

1. hearing, listening
2. obedience
3. (Byzantine) session (of a council)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἀκρόᾱσῐς; τῆς ἀκροᾱ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀκρόᾱσῐς hē akróāsis	τὼ ἀκροᾱ́σει tṑ akroā́sei	αἱ ἀκροᾱ́σεις hai akroā́seis
Genitive	τῆς ἀκροᾱ́σεως tês akroā́seōs	τοῖν ἀκροᾱσέοιν toîn akroāséoin	τῶν ἀκροᾱ́σεων tôn akroā́seōn
Dative	τῇ ἀκροᾱ́σει têi akroā́sei	ἀκροᾱσέοιν akroāséoin	ταῖς ἀκροᾱ́σεσῐ / ἀκροᾱ́σεσῐν taîs akroā́sesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀκρόᾱσῐν tḕn akróāsin	ἀκροᾱ́σει akroā́sei	τᾱ̀ς ἀκροᾱ́σεις tā̀s akroā́seis
Vocative	ἀκρόᾱσῐ akróāsi	ἀκροᾱ́σει akroā́sei	ἀκροᾱ́σεις akroā́seis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: ακρόαση (akróasi)
• → Latin: acroāsis
  • → English: acroasis

Further reading

• ἀκρόασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀκρόασις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
• 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.
  • hearing idem, page 392.
  • obedience idem, page 564.