Acadia

Two possibilities:

• from Italian Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía, “Arcadia”), a place of rural peace in pastoral poetry
• from Mi'kmaq akadie (“fertile land”)

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈkeɪ.di.ə/
• Rhymes: -eɪdiə

Acadia

1. (history) A colonial territory owned by France in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the USA.
2. Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine.
   • 2023 September 28, Jack Healy, “National Parks, and Those Who Count on Them, Brace for Possible Shutdown”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The fall rush around Acadia helps workers survive winter’s lean months. But that’s all at risk if a government shutdown forces America’s national parks and monuments to lock their gates, scuttling millions of vacations and school trips, and costing tourist towns from the Everglades to Yellowstone to Death Valley an estimated $70 million a day.

3. A parish in southern Louisiana, first settled by some Acadian exiles then by mostly Franco-Americans: see Acadia Parish.

• Acadian
• Acadia Parish

• Adacia

• Acadia: (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈka.di.a/, [äˈkäd̪iä]
• Acadia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈka.di.a/, [äˈkäːd̪iä]
• Acadiā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈka.di.aː/, [äˈkäd̪iäː]
• Acadiā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈka.di.a/, [äˈkäːd̪iä]

Acadia f sg (genitive Acadiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Acadia (a former French colony in North America in modern eastern Canada and the United States)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Acadiā f

1. ablative of Acadia