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 ακροβασίες ― aeroporikés akrovasíes ― aerial acrobatics
  3. (figuratively) acrobatics, risky behaviour, speech or actions based on unsound or dubious arguments
    πολιτικές ακροβασίες ― politikés akrovasíes ― political acrobatics
    λεκτικές/ρητορικές ακροβασίες ― lektikés/ritorikés akrovasíes ― speech/rhetoric acrobatics (sophistries)

Declension

References

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