academe

See also: Academe

English

From New Latin academia, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía); see academy. Academe (frequently capitalized) is a poetic name for the garden or grove near ancient Athens where Plato taught, supposedly named for its former owner, the hero Ἀκάδημος (Akademos; Ἑκάδημος, Hekademos).

academe (plural academes)

(historical) The name of the garden in Athens where the academics met. [First attested in the late 16th century.]^[1]
(poetic) An academy; a place of learning. [First attested in the late 16th century.]^[1]
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:
  Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; / Our court shall be a little Academe,/ Still and contemplative in living art.
(poetic) The scholarly life, environment, or community. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]^[1]
A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]^[1]

Poetic references are often to “the groves of Academe”, a translation of Horace’s inter silvas Academi.^[2]^[3]

1 2 3 4 Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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