# 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: /ˌæ.kəˈdiː.mɪ.ə/, enPR: ă'kədēʹmēə; (variant) IPA: /ˌæk.əˈdeɪ.mɪ.ə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˌæ.kəˈdi.mi.ə/, /ˌæ.kəˈdim.jə/, /ˌæ.kəˈdɛm.i.ə/, /-ˈdɛm.jə/; (variant) IPA: /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

* academentia
* academian
* dark academia
* light academia

#### Related terms

* academe
* academic
* academical
* academically
* academician
* academics
* Academy
* academy
* Akademeia

#### Translations
### 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)

### Further reading

* academia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Fala
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish academia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /akaˈdemja/
* Rhymes: -emja
* Syllabification: a‧ca‧de‧mia

### Noun

academia f (plural academias)
* academy

#### Related terms

* académicu (“academic”)

### References

* Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

## Ladin
### Noun

academia f (plural academies)
* academy

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* Acadēmīa (the Platonic Academy)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation 1

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /a.ka.deːˈmiː.a/, [äkäd̪eːˈmiːä] or IPA: /a.kaˈdeː.mi.a/, [äkäˈd̪eːmiä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /a.ka.deˈmi.a/, [äkäd̪eˈmiːä] or IPA: /a.kaˈde.mi.a/, [äkäˈd̪ɛːmiä]

#### Noun

acadēmī̆a f (genitive acadēmī̆ae); first declension
* academy, academe

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### 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), акаде́мія (akadémija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
** → Kazakh: академия (akademiä)
** → Mongolian: академи (akademi)
* → Serbo-Croatian: akademija
* → Slovene: akademija
* → Spanish: academia
* → Ukrainian: академія (akademija)

### Pronunciation 2

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /a.ka.deːˈmiː.aː/, [äkäd̪eːˈmiːäː] or IPA: /a.kaˈdeː.mi.aː/, [äkäˈd̪eːmiäː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /a.ka.deˈmi.a/, [äkäd̪eˈmiːä] or IPA: /a.kaˈde.mi.a/, [äkäˈd̪ɛːmiä]

#### Noun

ăcădēmī̆ā f
* ablative singular of ăcădēmī̆a

### 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.ka.deˈmi.ɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.ka.deˈmi.ɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.ka.deˈmi.a/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.kɐ.dɨˈmi.ɐ/ [ɐ.kɐ.ðɨˈmi.ɐ]
* Hyphenation: a‧ca‧de‧mi‧a

### Noun

academia f (plural academias)
* academy
* (Brazil) gym, fitness center
    Synonym: (Portugal) ginásio
* (Rio de Janeiro) hopscotch
    Synonyms: (Brazil) amarelinha, (Portugal) macaca

#### Derived terms

* academizar

#### Related terms

* académia, acadêmia
* académico

### Further reading

* “academia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin acadēmīa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /akaˈdemja/ [a.kaˈð̞e.mja]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -emja
* Syllabification: a‧ca‧de‧mia

### Noun

academia f (plural academias)
* academy

#### Derived terms

* academia de idiomas
* academista
* academizar

#### Related terms

* académico

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: akademiya
* → Ilocano: akademia
* → Tagalog: akademya

### Further reading

* “academia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10