academyyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[academy 词源字典]
academy: [16] Borrowed either from French académie or from Latin acadēmia, academy goes back ultimately to Greek Akadēmíā, the name of the place in Athens where the philosopher Plato (c. 428–347 BC) taught. Traditionally thought of as a grove (‘the groves of Academe’), this was in fact more of an enclosed piece of ground, a garden or park; it was named after the Attic mythological hero Akadēmos or Hekadēmus. In its application to the philosophical doctrines of Plato, English academy goes back directly to its Latin source, but the more general meanings ‘college, place of training’ derive from French.
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Academe (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"The Academy," 1580s, from phrase groves of Academe, translating Horace's silvas Academi (see academy); general sense of "the world of universities and scholarship" is attested from 1849. With lower-case letter, academia in the sense of "academic community" is from 1956.
Academe properly means Academus (a Greek hero); & its use as a poetic variant for academy, though sanctioned by Shakespeare, Tennyson & Lowell, is a mistake; the grove of A., however, (Milton) means rightly The Academy. [Fowler]
grove (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
Old English graf "grove, copse, small wood" (akin to græafa "thicket"), not certainly found in other Germanic languages and with no known cognates. Groves of Academe refers to the shaded walks of the Academy at Athens.
sciamachy (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"fighting with shadows, shadow-boxing" 1620s, from Greek skiamakhia "shadow-fighting, a sham fight" but perhaps literally "fighting in the shade" (i.e., in school; ancient teachers taught in shaded public places such as porches and groves), from skia "shade, shadow" (see shine (v.)) + makhe "battle" (see -machy).
nemoralyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"Of, relating to, or characteristic of groves or woods; living in or frequenting groves or woods", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Blount (1618–1679), antiquary and lexicographer. From classical Latin nemorālis belonging to a wood or forest, frequenting woodland from nemor-, nemus wood (cognate with ancient Greek νέμος wood, Gaulish nemeton holy place (probably originally holy grove), Early Irish nemed holy place) + -ālis.
rhizophorousyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"Belonging or relating to the genus Rhizophora or the family Rhizophoraceae of mangroves", Mid 19th cent. From rhizo- + -phorous.