Arcadia

See also: arcadia and Arcádia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Arcadia

1. A district or a prefecture in the central and mid SE Peloponnese that has a population of more than 110,000. Tripoli is the capital and a main city with a population over 22,000.
2. A mountainous region of ancient Greece.
3. A city in California, United States.
4. A city, the county seat of DeSoto County, Florida, United States
5. A town, the parish seat of Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States.
6. A city in Missouri, United States.

Noun

Arcadia (plural Arcadias)

1. (figurative) An ideal region of rural and idyllic contentment.

Alternative forms

• (ideal region): arcadia

Derived terms

• Arcadian
• Arcadic
• Arcady

Translations

A district or a prefecture in the central and mid SE Peloponnese

• Catalan: Arcàdia
• Danish: Arkadien
• Dutch: Arcadië
• Esperanto: Arkadio
• Finnish: Arkadia (fi)
• French: Arcadie (fr)
• German: Arkadien (de)
• Greek: Αρκαδία (el) f (Arkadía)

  Ancient Greek: Ἀρκαδία f (Arkadía)

• Hebrew: ארקאדיה f (Arkadia)
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• Interlingua: Arcadia
• Irish: an Arcáid f
• Italian: Arcadia f
• Latin: Arcadia f
• Lithuanian: Arkadija
• Polish: Arkadia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Arcádia f
• Russian: Арка́дия (ru) f (Arkádija)
• Spanish: Arcadia f
• Swedish: Arkadien n

An ideal region of rural and idyllic contentment

• Chinese: 世外桃源 (zh) (shìwàitáoyuán)

Anagrams

• acardia

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /arˈka.di.a/, [ärˈkäd̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈka.di.a/, [ärˈkäːd̪iä]

Proper noun

Arcadia f sg (genitive Arcadiae); first declension

1. Arcadia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Arcadia
Genitive	Arcadiae
Dative	Arcadiae
Accusative	Arcadiam
Ablative	Arcadiā
Vocative	Arcadia

Related terms

• Arcadicus
• Arcadius

Descendants

• Catalan: Arcàdia
• Italian: Arcadia
• Portuguese: Arcádia
• Spanish: Arcadia

References

• “Arcadia1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Arcadia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Arcadia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈkadja/ [aɾˈka.ð̞ja]

Proper noun

Arcadia f

1. Arcadia

Related terms

• arcadio