akademia

See also: akadémia, akademía, and akademią

Esperanto

Etymology

From akademio (academy) +‎ -a (adjectival ending).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /akadeˈmia/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Syllabification: a‧ka‧de‧mi‧a

Adjective

akademia (accusative singular akademian, plural akademiaj, accusative plural akademiajn)

  1. academic

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic اكادەميا
Cyrillic академия
Latin akademia

Noun

akademia

  1. Latin spelling of академия (akademiä, academy)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

akademia n

  1. definite plural of akademi

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

akademia n

  1. definite plural of akademi

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin acadēmīa.[1][2][3][4] First attested in 1535.[5]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /a.kaˈdɛ.mja/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛmja
    • Syllabification: a‧ka‧de‧mia

    Noun

    akademia f (related adjective akademijny or akademiowy)

    1. academy (institution or building for the study of higher learning) [from the 16th century][6]
      Hypernym: uczelnia
    2. academia (group of people collectively learning at an academy)
      Hypernym: uczelnia
    3. academia (studies at an academy)
      Hypernym: studia
    4. academy (society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science)
    5. function, ceremony (organized celebration for some holiday)
      Synonym: (obsolete) akademika
      Hypernym: uroczystość
      uroczysta akademiaa ceremonial function
      rocznicowa akademiaan anniversery ceremony
      okolicznościowa akademiaa commemorative function
      akademia poświęcona czemuśa function dedicated to something
    6. (classical studies) academy (garden where Plato taught) [from the 16th century][6]
      akademia platońskaPlato's academy
    7. (classical studies) academy (Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers) [from the 16th century][6]

    Declension

    Collocations

    Descendants

    • Kashubian: akademiô
    • ? Silesian: akadymijŏ

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), akademia is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 11 times in scientific texts, 49 times in news, 8 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 79 times, making it the 811th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[7]

    References

    1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “akademia”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
    2. ^ Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “akademia”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
    3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “akademia”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
    4. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “akademia”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
    5. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “akademija”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]<name:R:pl:SXVI>
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    7. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “akademia”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 3

    Further reading

    Swahili

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English academy.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    akademia class IX (plural akademia class X)

    1. academy