Acadia

See also: acadia, acádia, and Acádia

English

Etymology

Two possibilities:

• from Italian Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía, “Arcadia”), a place of rural peace in pastoral poetry
• from Mi'kmaq akadie (“fertile land”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈkeɪ.di.ə/
• Rhymes: -eɪdiə

Proper noun

Acadia

1. (historical) A colonial territory owned by France in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the USA.
2. Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine
3. A parish in southern Louisiana, first settled by some Acadian exiles then by mostly Franco-Americans: see Acadia Parish.

Derived terms

• Acadian
• Acadia Parish

Translations

a French colonial territory in North America

• Catalan: Acàdia f
• Finnish: Acadia
• French: Acadie (fr) f
• German: Akadien (de) f
• Korean: 아카디아 (akadia)
• Portuguese: Acádia f

Anagrams

• Adacia

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Latin

Pronunciation

• Acadia: (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈka.di.a/, [äˈkäd̪iä]
• Acadia: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈka.di.a/, [äˈkäːd̪iä]
• Acadiā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈka.di.aː/, [äˈkäd̪iäː]
• Acadiā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈka.di.a/, [äˈkäːd̪iä]

Proper noun

Acadia f sg (genitive Acadiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Acadia

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Acadia
Genitive	Acadiae
Dative	Acadiae
Accusative	Acadiam
Ablative	Acadiā
Vocative	Acadia
Locative	Acadiae

Proper noun

Acadiā f

1. ablative of Acadia