Talk:academy

Is it possible that academy has something to do with akkad? The Plato's garden could be named after the ancient kingdom, couldn't it? --Egg 00:18, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

RFV
RFV-sense for the "brothel" sense. The only examples I could find that seemed to support the given senses were about Cervantes (eg 1991, Adrienne Laskier Martín, Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet, page 267: "This is not to say that he never frequented such academies ..."), and nevertheless about academic academies. — Beobach 00:17, 22 November 2010 (UTC)