academia
English
/ˌæ.kəˈdiː.mɪ.ə/, /ˌæk.əˈdi.mi.ə/, /ˌæ.kəˈdeɪ.mɪ.ə/
noun
Definitions
- (collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
- Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin acadēmīa derived from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία.
Origin
Ancient Greek
Ἀκαδημία
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- academian English
- academia Latin
- acadēmīa Latin
- accademia Italian
- académie French
- акаде́мия Russian
- academia Spanish, Castilian
- Ἀκαδημία Ancient Greek
- Ἀκᾰδημῐ́ᾱ Ancient Greek
- academia Portuguese
- acadamh Irish
- akademija Serbo-Croatian
- acadèmia Catalan, Valencian
- akadēmija Latvian
- akademio Ido
- académie Middle French
- akademiya Azerbaijani
- אקדמיה Hebrew (modern)
- acadèmia Occitan
- akademija Lithuanian
- kadem Volapük
- akademiýa Turkmen