acroama Latin · revision 34544

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc ἀκρόαμα}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [a.kroˈaː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [a.kroˈaː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''acroāma''' ''n'' (genitive acroāmatis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἀκρόαμα|tr=akróama|t=something heard]],^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|grc|ἀκροάομαι|alt=ἀκροᾶσθαι|tr=akroâsthai|t=to listen]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found in Cicero,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) both for a performance heard with pleasure, as when Themistocles was asked which ''acroama'' or whose voice he most liked to hear, and for the performer himself.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Georges notes that while the Greeks used it of what was heard, the Romans used it almost only of the person: a musician, reader, storyteller or jester who entertained guests at table.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero says of a man who had the inlaid ornaments torn off at a dinner that, like an entertaining performer, he would not leave without his tip, and says someone was not only a spectator but an actor and an ''acroama''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Nepos writes that at Atticus' dinners the only entertainer heard was a reader.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Suetonius, Pliny the Younger and Macrobius use the plural for performers at meals, and Petronius uses it of a performance.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Later scribes also wrote ''acroma''.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL) Glossaries explain it as the sound of lyres or pipes and as songs of the stage.^(TLL) William of Malmesbury uses it of a tune sung to please a king and his guests.^(DMLBS) In contemporary Latin it is used for a [[m|en|podcast]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a performance and of a performer.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos writes of the reader at Atticus' dinners.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses the plural for entertainers at meals.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An item in an [[m|en|entertainment]], a performance heard with pleasure, especially at a meal.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # A performer who entertains guests, a musician, reader, storyteller or [[m|en|jester]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|tune]].^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Contemporary Latin)'' A [[m|en|podcast]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[corōllārium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}