academician

See also: Academician

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)

Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ēs

Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.

Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă)

Ancient Greek -εια (-eia)

Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)

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Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)

Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)der.

Medieval Latin acadēmicusder.

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Latin acadēmicusbor.

French académiqueder.

English academic

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin -ānus

Latin -iānusbor.

English -ian

English academician

From academic +‎ -ian (“one skilled in”), partly after French académicien.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˌka.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/, /ˌa.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/, /əˌkæ.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

academician (plural academicians)

1. (now chiefly US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic. [from 17th c.]
   • 1981 December 27, Dave Dellinger, quotee, Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 19:

     One can learn more about the nature of our society by sharing in a small way the life of its victims than by interacting intellectually with its privileged academicians.

2. A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts. [from 17th c.]
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 9:

     ‘Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious Academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.’

Synonyms

member of university faculty

• academian
• academic

Derived terms

• academicianship

Related terms

• academia
• academy

Translations

member of an academy — see also academic

• Albanian: akademik (sq) m
• Arabic: أَكَادِيمِيّ m (ʔakādīmiyy), أَكَادِيمِيَّة f (ʔakādīmiyya)
• Armenian: ակադեմիկոս (hy) (akademikos)
• Azerbaijani: akademik
• Belarusian: акадэ́мік m (akadémik)
• Bulgarian: академи́к (bg) m (akademík), академи́чка f (akademíčka)
• Catalan: acadèmic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 院士 (zh) (yuànshì)

• Czech: akademik m
• Danish: akademiker (da) c
• Dutch: academicus (nl) m
• Esperanto: akademiano
• Estonian: akadeemik (et)
• Finnish: akateemikko (fi)
• French: académicien (fr) m, académicienne (fr) f
• Georgian: აკადემიკოსი (aḳademiḳosi)
• German: Akademiker (de) m, Akademikerin (de) f
• Greek: ακαδημαϊκός (el) m (akadimaïkós)
• Hindi: अकदमीशियन m (akadmīśiyan)
• Ido: akademiano (io)
• Indonesian: akademikus (id), akademisi (id)
• Irish: acadamhaí m, ball d'acadamh m
• Italian: accademico (it), accademica (it) f
• Japanese: アカデミー会員 (アカデミーかいいん, akademī kaiin), アカデミシャン (akademishan)
• Kazakh: академик (akademik)
• Korean: 학술 위원(學術委員) (haksul wiwon), 아카데미션 (akademisyeon)
• Kyrgyz: академик (ky) (akademik)
• Latin: acadēmicus m
• Latvian: akadēmiķis m, akadēmiķe f
• Lithuanian: akademikas m
• Macedonian: акаде́мик m (akadémik)
• Norman: académicien m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akademiker (no) m

• Polish: akademik (pl) m, akademiczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: acadêmico (pt) m
• Romanian: academician (ro) m, academiciană (ro) f
• Russian: акаде́мик (ru) m (akadémik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: акадѐмик m

  Latin: akadèmik (sh) m

• Slovak: akademik m
• Slovene: akademik m
• Spanish: academista (es) m or f
• Swedish: akademiker (sv) c, akademiledamot (sv) c, akademimedlem c
• Tajik: академик (akademik)
• Thai: นักวิชาการ (th) (nák-wí-chaa-gaan)
• Turkish: akademisyen (tr)
• Ukrainian: акаде́мік (uk) m (akadémik)
• Uzbek: akademik (uz)
• Vietnamese: viện sĩ (vi)

collegian

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大學生 / 大学生 (zh) (dàxuéshēng)

• Dutch: academicus (nl) m
• Finnish: akateemikko (fi)
• German: Akademiker (de) m, Akademikerin (de) f, Student (de) m, Studentin (de) f
• Japanese: 学生 (ja) (がくせい, gakusei), 大学生 (ja) (だいがくせい, gakusei), 学徒 (ja) (がくと, gakuto)
• Russian: студе́нт (ru) m (studént), студе́нтка (ru) f (studéntka)
• Spanish: academista (es) m or f
• Thai: นักวิชาการ (th) (nák-wí-chaa-gaan)

member faculty

• Finnish: akateemikko (fi)
• German: Akademiker (de) m, Akademikerin (de) f
• Japanese: 学者 (ja) (がくしゃ, gakusha)
• Russian: преподава́тель (ru) m (prepodavátelʹ), преподава́тельница (ru) f (prepodavátelʹnica), профе́ссор (ru) m (proféssor)
• Spanish: academista (es) m or f
• Thai: นักวิชาการ (th) (nák-wí-chaa-gaan)

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} אקדמאי m (aqademai), ^{(please verify)} אקדמאית f (aqademait)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} akademiker (no), ^{(please verify)} medlem (no) n, ^{(please verify)} av et akademi

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French académicien. By surface analysis, academic +‎ -ian.

Noun

academician m (plural academicieni, feminine equivalent academiciană)

1. academician

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	academician	academicianul	academicieni	academicienii
genitive-dative	academician	academicianului	academicieni	academicienilor
vocative	academicianule		academicienilor