'academie' originates from the French word 'académie', which in turn comes from the Latin 'academia', derived from the Greek 'Akadēmia', the name of the garden where Plato taught.

'Akadēmia' transformed into the Latin 'academia', which was adopted into Old French as 'académie', and eventually became the modern English word 'academy'.

Initially, it referred to the garden where Plato taught, but over time it evolved into its current meaning of an institution of learning or a society of scholars.