academia
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/;[1][2][3] (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. [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.
Derived terms
Translations
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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 [1909], →ISBN)
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/, [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]
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
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/, [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]
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
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ka.deˈmi.ɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ka.deˈmi.a/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.kɐ.dɨˈmi.ɐ/ [ɐ.kɐ.ðɨˈmi.ɐ]
- 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
Derived terms
Further reading
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
- IPA(key): /akaˈdemja/ [a.kaˈð̞e.mja]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -emja
- Syllabification: a‧ca‧de‧mia
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “academia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014