The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀκρόᾱσις“a hearing or lecture”
- Latin · borrowed fromacroāsis
- English todayacroasis
From Latin acroāsis, from Ancient Greek ἀκρόᾱσις (akróāsis, “a hearing or lecture”), from ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai, “listen”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.