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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Cicero|origins=grc Ἀκαδήμεια}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [a.ka.deːˈmiː.a], [a.kaˈdeː.mi.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [a.ka.deˈmiː.a], [a.kaˈdɛː.mi.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''acadēmī̆a''' ''f'' (genitive acadēmī̆ae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|grc|Ἀκαδήμεια|tr=Akadḗmeia]], a variant of ⟨Ἀκαδημία⟩, the gymnasium named after the hero Akademos.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Etymonline)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC, and Cicero uses it of Plato's gymnasium.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the gymnasium near Athens where Plato and his successors taught, and in Cicero the school of philosophy Plato founded, its members and views, the Old and the New Academy.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Cicero it also meant a gymnasium he built on one of his estates and his own exposition of the Academic views, the ''Academica''.^(OLD 2012) In Quintilian it meant the dialectical training of the Academy.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant an academy or college.^(Stelten 1995) In British Medieval Latin it meant a university, as Oxford in 1421.^(DMLBS) [[en|academy]] came in the mid-15th century, of Plato's Academy, and [[en|academia]] in 1956, of the academic community.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of Plato's gymnasium and school.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of the Academy's dialectic.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1421 – British Medieval Latin uses it of a university.^(DMLBS)
+ * mid-15th century – English ''academy'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # The Academy, Plato's gymnasium at Athens.^(OLD 2012)
+ # The Academic school of philosophy.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Cicero's gymnasium; his ''Academica''.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|university]].^(DMLBS)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|academy]]
+ * [[en|academia]]
+ * [[en|academic]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}