ακροβασία

Greek

Etymology

Reborrowing from 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, στα ακροβατικά νούμερα.
    I akrovasía kai i schoinovasía eínai téchnes tou tsírkou, sta akrovatiká noúmera.
    Acrobatics and tightrope walking are arts of the circus, at acrobatic numbers.
  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)
  4. (dance) en pointe, performing on tip-toe

Declension
declension of ακροβασία
singular plural
nominative ακροβασία • ακροβασίες •
genitive ακροβασίας • ακροβασιών •
accusative ακροβασία • ακροβασίες •
vocative ακροβασία • ακροβασίες •

Synonyms

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