ἀκρόασις
Third declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἀκρόασις
Structure:
ἀκροασι
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- a hearing or listening
- obedience to
Declension
Third declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- γίνου ταχὺσ ἐν ἀκροάσει σου καὶ ἐν μακροθυμίᾳ φθέγγου ἀπόκρισιν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 5:11)
- οὔτε ὡσ ποιηταὶ ὑμνήκασι περὶ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον κοσμοῦντεσ, μᾶλλον πιστεύων, οὔτε ὡσ λογογράφοι συνέθεσαν ἐπὶ τὸ προσαγωγότερον τῇ ἀκροάσει ἢ ἀληθέστερον, ὄντα ἀνεξέλεγκτα καὶ τὰ πολλὰ ὑπὸ χρόνου αὐτῶν ἀπίστωσ ἐπὶ τὸ μυθῶδεσ ἐκνενικηκότα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 20 1:2)
- καὶ λόγων μὲν οἰόνται μάθησιν εἶναι καὶ μελέτην, ἀκροάσει δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ὁπωσοῦν χρωμένουσ ὠφελεῖσθαι. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 3 2:2)
- τισ ἐκ γειτόνων πυρὸσ δεόμενοσ, εἶτα πολὺ καὶ λαμπρὸν εὑρὼν αὐτοῦ καταμένοι διὰ τέλουσ θαλπόμενοσ, οὕτωσ εἴ τισ ἥκων λόγου μεταλαβεῖν πρὸσ ἄλλον οὐχ οἰέται δεῖν φῶσ οἰκεῖον ἐξάπτειν καὶ νοῦν ἴδιον, ἀλλὰ χαίρων τῇ ἀκροάσει κάθηται θελγόμενοσ, οἱο͂ν ἔρευθοσ ἕλκει καὶ γάνωμα τὴν δόξαν ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων, τὸν δ’ ἐντὸσ· (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 18 13:1)
- οὐθὲν γάρ, ὅ τι καὶ ἄξιον λόγου, φαίνεται πάσχοντα αὐτῇ τῇ θεωρίᾳ τῶν καλῶν ἢ τῇ ἀκροάσει τῶν εὐαρμόστων, εἰ μή τί που συμβέβηκε τερατῶδεσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 65:1)
Synonyms
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a hearing or listening
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obedience to
