English

Noun

academia ‎(uncountable)

1. The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
   • 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
• academy
• Akademeia

Translations

References

1. ↑ “academia” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
2. ↑ Lindberg, Christine A., ed. The Oxford College Dictionary. 2nd. New York: Spark Publishing, 2007.
3. ↑ 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)

Ladin

Noun

academia f ‎(plural academies)

1. academy

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία ‎(Akadēmía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.ka.deːˈmiː.a/

Noun

acadēmīa f ‎(genitive acadēmīae); first declension

1. academy, academe

Usage notes

• Capitalised, the Platonic Academy.

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

• acadēmicus

Descendants

• English: academia, academy
• Italian: accademia
• Portuguese: academia
• Spanish: academia

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, 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 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

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): /a̠ka̠ˈðe̞mja̠/

Noun

academia f ‎(plural academias)

1. academy

Derived terms

• academista

Related terms

• académico