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ἀκρόασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκρόασις

Structure: ἀκροασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)kroa/omai

Sense

  1. a hearing or listening
  2. 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.

Examples

  • ἀκροάσεων δὲ καὶ λόγων τῶν δικανικῶν ἅλισ ἔχει μοι ὁσημέραι τῶν ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ δικαζομένων ἀκούοντι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 12:11)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ οἱ ἐσ τὰ πλήθη παριόντεσ καὶ τὰσ τοιαύτασ τῶν ἀκροάσεων ἐπαγγέλλοντεσ εἴδωλα ἄττα ἐπιδεικνύμεθα· (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hearing or listening

  2. obedience to

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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