ακροβασία

Greek

Etymology

Reborrowing from French acrobatie < acrobate, itself from Koine Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs) from ἄκρον (ákron, peak) -βάτης (-bátēs, walker) (not from ᾰ̓κρόβασις (akróbasis, support e.g. foot of table).[1]
For figurative sense, it is a calque of French faire des acrobaties.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /akrovaˈsia/
  • Hyphenation: α‧κρο‧βα‧σί‧α

Noun

ακροβασία • (akrovasía) f (plural ακροβασίες)

  1. (gymnastics) acrobatics (the art and the performance)
    Η ακροβασία και η σχοινοβασία είναι τέχνες του τσίρκου.
    I akrovasía kai i schoinovasía eínai téchnes tou tsírkou.
    Acrobatics and tightrope walking are arts of the circus.
    Synonym: ακροβατισμός (akrovatismós)
  2. any action or art which involves extreme skill
    1. (flying) aerial acrobatics, stunt flying
      αεροπορικές ακροβασίεςaeroporikés akrovasíesaerial acrobatics
  3. (figuratively) acrobatics, risky behaviour, speech or actions based on unsound or dubious arguments
    πολιτικές ακροβασίεςpolitikés akrovasíespolitical acrobatics
    λεκτικές/ρητορικές ακροβασίεςlektikés/ritorikés akrovasíesspeech/rhetoric acrobatics (sophistries)

Declension

References

  1. ακροβασία - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
  2. ακροβασία - Babiniotis, Georgios (2002) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: [] [Dictionary of Modern Greek (language)] (in Greek), 2nd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias [Lexicology Centre], 1st edition 1998, →ISBN.
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