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Gymnasium

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See also: gymnasium

German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin gymnasium, from Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, exercise, school), from γυμνός (gumnós, naked).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡʏmˈnaːziʊm/
  • Audio (Austria):(file)
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Noun

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Gymnasium n (strong, genitive Gymnasiums or Gymnasium, plural Gymnasien)

  1. grammar school (UK), prep school (US) (school used to prepare students for university)
    Synonym: (colloquial) Gymi
    Coordinate terms: Grundschule, Hauptschule, Realschule, Internat
    das Gymnasium absolvierento complete a grammar school education
    • 1725, Gottfried Polycarpus Müller, Abriß der Schul-Studien, und desjenigen, so bishero auf dem Zittauischen Gymnasio præstiret worden, und mit Göttlicher Hülffe noch præstiret werden soll, Zittau (location/place), p. 32 (§. VII.; [1]):
      So weit gehet das jetzige Vorhaben, welches auf keine ander Ursachen gegründet ist, als auf die Erbauung der in unserm Gymnasio studirenden Jugend.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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Alternatively declined like gymnasium (with vocative and ablative).

Descendants

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  • Hungarian: gimnázium
  • Lower Sorbian: gymnazium
  • Polish: gimnazjum

Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γυμνάσιον (Gumnásion, diminutive of Γυμνάς (Gumnás)).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Gymnasium f sg (genitive Gymnasiī); second declension

  1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, character in the play Cistellaria of Plautus

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

singular
nominative Gymnasium
genitive Gymnasiī
dative Gymnasiō
accusative Gymnasium
ablative Gymnasiō
vocative Gymnasium

References

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  • Gymnasium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Gymnasium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.