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Show Kow Csme the Word Aceoemy. ,VW',v back in the Fifth century be-; fore be present era. the Athenian, man named AK.iu.ilh- park was called Akademia. The word Akjdemia gradually came c be up-piled up-piled to the place wbero I'l.-xo trained minds, and its use as the designation t,f Akademos' physical training quarters quar-ters fell into the limbo of f..rgutton tilings. Thus the word Akademia (or ".'dtniv, as we have it) took on the meaniDS of a place here minds are taught how to thin'::. Despite the swp of many centuries and ra-es over the original Greek stock, the place where Plato taught, near Athens, U still called Akad-miis. |