acroama
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]acroama (plural acroamata)
- rhetorical declamation
- esoteric teaching that was not to be written down
References
[edit]- OED 2nd edition 1989
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀκρόαμα (akróama, “something heard”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /a.kroˈaː.ma/, [äkroˈäːmä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.kroˈa.ma/, [äkroˈäːmä]
Noun
[edit]acroāma n (genitive acroāmatis); third declension
- Anything heard, especially anything heard for entertainment, such as a play or musical piece.
- performer, such as an actor or musician.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | acroāma | acroāmata |
genitive | acroāmatis | acroāmatum |
dative | acroāmatī | acroāmatibus |
accusative | acroāma | acroāmata |
ablative | acroāmate | acroāmatibus |
vocative | acroāma | acroāmata |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “acroama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acroama”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acroama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “acroama”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “acroama”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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