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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

  • καὶ εἶδον ἀναβάτασ ἱππεῖσ δύο καὶ ἀναβάτην ὄνου καὶ ἀναβάτην καμήλου. ἀκρόασαι ἀκρόασιν πολλὴν (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 21:7)
  • ἐῶ γὰρ λέγειν ὅτι καὶ οἱ παρόντεσ αὐτοὶ καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ἀκρόασιν παρειλημμένοι ἐπειδὰν εἰσ τοιοῦτον οἶκον παρέλθωσιν, ἀντὶ ἀκροατῶν θεαταὶ καθίστανται, καὶ οὐχ οὕτω Δημόδοκοσ ἢ Φήμιοσ ἢ Θάμυρισ ἢ Ἀμφίων ἢ Ὀρφεύσ τισ λέγων ἐστίν, ὥστε ἀποσπάσαι τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῆσ θέασ· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 18:1)
  • περιχυθεὶσ λόγων μὲν ἐκείνων ἢ ἀκροάσεωσ ἄλλησ ^ οὐδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀϊόντι ἐοίκεν, ὅλοσ δὲ πρὸσ τοῖσ ὁρωμένοισ ἐστίν, εἰ μὴ τύχοι τισ παντελῶσ τυφλὸσ ὢν ἢ ἐν νυκτὶ ὥσπερ ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴ ποιοῖτο τὴν ἀκρόασιν. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 18:3)
  • βαβαί, ὅσοι συνεληλύθασιν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀκρόασιν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 25:8)
  • ὁρῶ δὲ ὑμᾶσ οὐκ ἐξ ἴσου τῶν λεγόντων τὴν ἀκρόασιν ποιουμένουσ, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ μὲν προσέχοντασ τὸν νοῦν, τῶν δὲ οὐδὲ τῆσ φωνῆσ ἀνεχομένουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 165)

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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