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See also: acadèmia
English
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academy and Akademeia; see also academe. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæ.kəˈdiː.mɪ.ə/, enPR: ă'kədēʹmēə; (variant) IPA(key): /ˌæk.əˈdeɪ.mɪ.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌæ.kəˈdi.mi.ə/, /ˌæ.kəˈdim.jə/, /ˌæ.kəˈdɛm.i.ə/, /-ˈdɛm.jə. invalid IPA characters (/); (variant) IPA(key): /ˌæk.əˈdeɪ.mi.ə/
- Rhymes: -iːmiə, -iːmjə, -ɛmjə
Noun
academia (uncountable)
- (collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
- Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
- 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
- Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
- Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
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Translations
scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole
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institution of higher education
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References
- ^ “academia”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ Lindberg, Christine A., ed. The Oxford College Dictionary. 2nd. New York: Spark Publishing, 2007.
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN)
Further reading
Fala
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish academia.
Pronunciation
Noun
academia f (plural academias)
Related terms
- académicu (“academic”)
References
- Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN
Ladin
Noun
academia f (plural academies)
Latin
Alternative forms
- Acadēmīa (the Platonic Academy)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), variant form of Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía).
Pronunciation 1
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.ka.deːˈmiː.a/, or IPA(key): /a.kaˈdeː.mi.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.ka.deˈmi.a/, or IPA(key): /a.kaˈde.mi.a/,
Noun
acadēmī̆a f (genitive acadēmī̆ae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | acadēmī̆a | acadēmī̆ae |
| Genitive | acadēmī̆ae | acadēmī̆ārum |
| Dative | acadēmī̆ae | acadēmī̆īs |
| Accusative | acadēmī̆am | acadēmī̆ās |
| Ablative | acadēmī̆ā | acadēmī̆īs |
| Vocative | acadēmī̆a | acadēmī̆ae |
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Descendants
- → Catalan: acadèmia
- → English: academia
- → French: académie
- → Galician: academia
- → Irish: acadamh
- → Italian: accademia
- → Lithuanian: akademija
- → Occitan: acadèmia
- → Portuguese: academia
- → Russian: академия (akademija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: akademija
- → Slovene: akademija
- → Spanish: academia
- → Ukrainian: академія (akademija)
Pronunciation 2
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.ka.deːˈmiː.aː/, or IPA(key): /a.kaˈdeː.mi.aː/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.ka.deˈmi.a/, or IPA(key): /a.kaˈde.mi.a/,
Noun
ăcădēmī̆ā f
References
- “academia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “academia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- academia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “academia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧ca‧de‧mi‧a
Noun
academia f (plural academias)
- academy
- (Brazil) gym
- Synonym: (Portugal) ginásio
- (Rio de Janeiro) hopscotch
- Synonyms: (Brazil) amarelinha, (Portugal) macaca
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos.
Pronunciation
Noun
academia f (plural academias)
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Descendants
Further reading
- “academia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014