acroama

From Latin acroāma.

acroama (plural acroamata)

1. rhetorical declamation
2. esoteric teaching that was not to be written down

• OED 2nd edition 1989

From Ancient Greek ἀκρόαμα (akróama, “something heard”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.kroˈaː.ma/, [äkroˈäːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.kroˈa.ma/, [äkroˈäːmä]

acroāma n (genitive acroāmatis); third declension

1. Anything heard, especially anything heard for entertainment, such as a play or musical piece.
2. performer, such as an actor or musician.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• English: acroama
• Portuguese: acroama

• “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