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"academy" in seven languages

Meaningacademy

Spanish

academia

/akaˈdemja/

fem.learned

Also a private school for lessons: una academia de idiomas.

French

académie

/akademi/

fem.learned

Italian

accademia

/akkaˈdɛmja/

fem.learned

Portuguese

academia

/akadeˈmiɐ/

fem.learned

In Brazil academia is also the everyday word for 'gym'.

Romanian

academie

/akadeˈmie/

fem.learned

Catalan

acadèmia

/əkəˈdɛmiə/

fem.learned

English

academy

/əˈkædəmi/

from Latin/French · French académie / Latin ACADĒMIA

English → ItalianacademyaccademiaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

ACADĒMIAM‘Plato's school (from Greek Akadēmeia)’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Named after the grove outside Athens where Plato taught. All three countries have a language academy that publishes a dictionary: the Real Academia Española, the Académie française, the Accademia della Crusca.

English relatives: academic, academia

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In a sentence

  • esLa academia publica un diccionario.
  • frL'Académie publie un dictionnaire.
  • itL'accademia pubblica un dizionario.
  • ptA academia publica um dicionário.
  • roAcademia publică un dicționar.
  • caL'acadèmia publica un diccionari.
  • enThe academy publishes a dictionary.

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