académico

See also: academico and acadêmico

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• acadêmico (Brazil)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin acadēmicus, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós), from Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía, the location where Plato taught).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.kɐˈdɛ.mi.ku/ [ɐ.kɐˈðɛ.mi.ku]

• Rhymes: -ɛmiku
• Hyphenation: a‧ca‧dé‧mi‧co

Adjective

académico (feminine académica, masculine plural académicos, feminine plural académicas, not comparable) (European Portuguese spelling)

1. academic

Noun

académico m (plural académicos, feminine académica, feminine plural académicas) (European Portuguese spelling)

1. academic

Further reading

• “acadêmico”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “acadêmico”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “acadêmico” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “académico”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “académico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin acadēmicus, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akaˈdemiko/ [a.kaˈð̞e.mi.ko]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -emiko
• Syllabification: a‧ca‧dé‧mi‧co

Adjective

académico (feminine académica, masculine plural académicos, feminine plural académicas)

1. academic
2. scholastic

Derived terms

• académicamente
• academicismo
• academicista
• antiacadémico
• año académico
• libertad académica

 

Noun

académico m (plural académicos, feminine académica, feminine plural académicas)

1. academician, academic

Related terms

• academia

 

Further reading

• “académico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10