academia

See also: acadèmia

English

Etymology

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

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.əˈdi.mi.ə/, /ˌæk.əˈdi.mjə/, /ˌæk.əˈdɛ.mjə/
• (variant) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.kəˈdeɪ.mɪ.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːmiə, -iːmjə, -ɛmjə

Noun

academia (uncountable)

1. (collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. [from 1956]
   • 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.

   Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.

2. Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

   Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.

Related terms

• academe
• academentia
• academic
• academical
• academically
• academician
• academics
• academy
• Academy
• Akademeia
• dark academia

 

Translations

scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學術界 (zh), 学术界 (zh) (xuéshùjiè), 學術圈, 学术圈 (xuéshùquān)

• Danish: akademia n
• Finnish: akateeminen maailma, tiedeyhteisö (fi), yliopistomaailma
• German: Akademia f (rare), die akademische Welt f

institution of higher education

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學術 (zh), 学术 (zh) (xuéshù)

• Finnish: yliopisto/yliopistot, akateeminen maailma

• Portuguese: academia (pt) f
• Swedish: den akademiska världen c

Further reading

• academia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Noun

academia f (plural academies)

1. academy

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Acadēmīa (the Platonic Academy)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), variant form of Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.ka.deːˈmiː.a/, [a.ka.d̪eːˈmiː.a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ka.deˈmi.a/, [a.ka.d̪ɛˈmiː.a]

Noun

acadēmīa f (genitive acadēmīae); first declension

1. academy, academe

Usage notes

• Capitalised, the Platonic Academy.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	acadēmīa	acadēmīae
Genitive	acadēmīae	acadēmīārum
Dative	acadēmīae	acadēmīīs
Accusative	acadēmīam	acadēmīās
Ablative	acadēmīā	acadēmīīs
Vocative	acadēmīa	acadēmīae

Related terms

• acadēmicus

Descendants

• → Catalan: acadèmia
• → English: academia
• → French: académie
  • → Dutch: academie
    • → Indonesian: akademi
  • → English: academy
    • → Scottish Gaelic: acadamaidh
    • → Welsh: academi
  • → German: Akademie
  • → Romanian: academie
  • → Turkish: akademi
• → Galician: academia
• → Irish: acadamh
• → Italian: accademia
• → Lithuanian: akademija
• → Occitan: acadèmia
• → Portuguese: academia
• → Russian: академия (akademija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: akademija
• → Spanish: academia
• → Ukrainian: академія (akademija)

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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], 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

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.kɐ.ðɨ.ˈmi.ɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ka.de.ˈmia/
• Hyphenation: a‧ca‧de‧mi‧a

Noun

academia f (plural academias)

1. academy
2. (Brazil) gym

Derived terms

• academizar

Related terms

• académia, acadêmia
• académico

Further reading

• “academia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /akaˈdemja/, [akaˈðemja]

Noun

academia f (plural academias)

1. academy

Derived terms

• academista
• academizar

Related terms

• académico

Descendants

• → Tagalog: akademya

Further reading

• “academia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.