academia
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæ.kə.ˈdiː.mɪ.ə/, enPR: ă'kədēʹmēə
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌæ.kə.ˈdi.mi.ə/, /ˌæ.kə.ˈdi.mjə/, /ˌæ.kə.ˈdɛ.mjə/[1][2][3]
- (variant) IPA(key): /ˌæ.kə.ˈdeɪ.mɪ.ə/
- Rhymes: -iːmiə, -iːmjə, -ɛmjə
Noun edit
academia (uncountable)
- (collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. [from 1956]
- 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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References edit
- ^ “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 [1909], →ISBN)
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Fala edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish academia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
academia f (plural academias)
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- académicu (“academic”)
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Ladin edit
Noun edit
academia f (plural academies)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- Acadēmīa (the Platonic Academy)
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), variant form of Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía).
Pronunciation 1 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.ka.deːˈmiː.a/, [äkäd̪eːˈmiːä] or IPA(key): /a.kaˈdeː.mi.a/, [äkäˈd̪eːmiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.ka.deˈmi.a/, [äkäd̪eˈmiːä] or IPA(key): /a.kaˈde.mi.a/, [äkäˈd̪ɛːmiä]
Noun edit
acadēmī̆a f (genitive acadēmī̆ae); first declension
Declension edit
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 edit
- → 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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.ka.deːˈmiː.aː/, [äkäd̪eːˈmiːäː] or IPA(key): /a.kaˈdeː.mi.aː/, [äkäˈd̪eːmiäː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.ka.deˈmi.a/, [äkäd̪eˈmiːä] or IPA(key): /a.kaˈde.mi.a/, [äkäˈd̪ɛːmiä]
Noun edit
ăcădēmī̆ā f
References edit
- “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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], 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 edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- Hyphenation: a‧ca‧de‧mi‧a
Noun edit
academia f (plural academias)
- academy
- (Brazil) gym
- Synonym: (Portugal) ginásio
- (Rio de Janeiro) hopscotch
- Synonyms: (Brazil) amarelinha, (Portugal) macaca
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Etymology edit
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 edit
- IPA(key): /akaˈdemja/ [a.kaˈð̞e.mja]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -emja
- Syllabification: a‧ca‧de‧mia
Noun edit
academia f (plural academias)
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Further reading edit
- “academia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014