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Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ēs

Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)

Ancient Greek -εια (-eia)

Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

English academician

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

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.’

member of an academy — see also academic

collegian

member faculty

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

academician m (plural academicieni, feminine equivalent academiciană)

  1. academician