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

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

Proper noun

Acadia

1. (history) 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, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland) 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 settled by Acadian exiles: see Acadia Parish.

Derived terms

• Acadian
• Acadia Parish

Translations

a French colonial territory in North America

• Finnish: Acadia
• French: Acadie (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: Acádia f

Anagrams

• Adacia

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Latin

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