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English

Etymology

New Latin acad?m?a, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Akad?mía), 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): /?æ.k??di?.m?.?/, enPR: ?'k?d??m??
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æk.??di.mi.?/, /?æk.??di.mj?/, /?æk.??d?.mj?/
• (variant) IPA^(key): /?æ.k??de?.m?.?/
• Rhymes: -i?mi?, -i?mj?, -?mj?

Noun

academia (uncountable)

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

2. Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• academia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Ladin

Noun

academia f (plural academies)

1. academy

Latin

Alternative forms

• Acad?m?a (the Platonic Academy)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (Akad?meia), variant form of ???????? (Akad?mía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.ka.de??mi?.a/, [äkäd?e??mi?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ka.de?mi.a/, [?k?d???mi??]

Noun

acad?m?a f (genitive acad?m?ae); first declension

1. academy, academe

Usage notes

• Capitalised, the Platonic Academy.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• acad?micus

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin acad?m?a, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Akad?mía), 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): /?.k?.ð?.?mi.?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ka.de.?mia/
• Hyphenation: a?ca?de?mi?a

Noun

academia f (plural academias)

1. academy
2. (Brazil) gym

1. Synonym: (Portugal) ginásio

Derived terms

• academizar

Related terms

• académia, acadêmia
• académico

Further reading

• “academia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin acad?m?a, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Akad?mía), 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): /aka?demja/, [a.ka?ð?e.mja]

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.

English

Alternative forms

• academick (obsolete)
• acad, acad. (abbreviation)
• Academic

Etymology

From both the Medieval Latin acad?micus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (akad?mikós), from ???????? (Akad?mía) or ????????? (Akad?meia), the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æk??d?m?k/
• Rhymes: -?m?k

Adjective

academic (comparative more academic, superlative most academic)

1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato [from late 16th century]

2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization. [from late 16th century]
   • academic courses - William Warburton
   • academical study - George Berkeley
3. Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to practical or vocational [from late 19th century]

4. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical: having no practical importance.
   • 2018, US Government Accountability Office, "Decision, Matter of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation", May 22, 2018

     As a general matter, we will not consider a protest where the issue presented has no practical consequences with regard to an existing federal government procurement, and thus is of purely academic interest.

5. Having a love of or aptitude for learning.

6. (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic. [from late 19th century]
7. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.
8. Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
9. Study of humanities topics rather than science and engineering.

Derived terms

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Translations

Noun

academic (plural academics)

1. (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
2. A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
3. A member of the Academy; an academician. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
4. (archaic) A student in a college.
5. (plural only) Academic dress; academicals. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
6. (plural only) Academic studies. [First attested in the late 20th century.]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• scientific

References

Further reading

• academic at OneLook Dictionary Search
• academic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• academic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Interlingua

Adjective

academic

1. academic

Romanian

Etymology

From French académique, from Latin academicus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ka?de.mik/

Adjective

academic m or n (feminine singular academic?, masculine plural academici, feminine and neuter plural academice)

1. academic

Declension