academia
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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. See also academy, academe, Akademeia. Modern sense of "the world of universities and scholarship" recorded from 1956.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæ.kəˈdiː.mɪ.ə/, enPR: ă'kədēʹmēə
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌæk.əˈdi.mi.ə/, /ˌæk.əˈdi.mjə/, /ˌæk.əˈdɛ.mjə/[1][2][3]
- Rhymes: -iːmiə; (for some speakers) macadamia
- Rhymes: -iːmjə
- Rhymes: -ɛmjə
NounEdit
academia (uncountable)
- The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
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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.
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Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
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- Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
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Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ “academia” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–.
- ^ 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 0-87779-101-5)
LadinEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
acadēmīa f (genitive acadēmīae); first declension
Usage notesEdit
- Capitalised, the Platonic Academy.
InflectionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | acadēmīa | acadēmīae |
| genitive | acadēmīae | acadēmīārum |
| dative | acadēmīae | acadēmīīs |
| accusative | acadēmīam | acadēmīās |
| ablative | acadēmīā | acadēmīīs |
| vocative | acadēmīa | acadēmīae |
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
academia f (plural academias)
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
academia f (plural academias)
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Further readingEdit
- “academia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.