Gymnasium
See also: gymnasium
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gymnasium, from Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, “exercise, school”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʏmˈnaːziʊm/
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Noun
Gymnasium n (strong, genitive Gymnasiums or Gymnasium, plural Gymnasien)
- grammar school (UK), prep school (US) (school used to prepare students for university)
- Synonym: (colloquial) Gymi
- Coordinate terms: Grundschule, Hauptschule, Realschule, Internat
- das Gymnasium absolvieren ― to 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.
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Declension
Declension of Gymnasium [neuter, strong]
Alternatively declined like gymnasium (with vocative and ablative).
Descendants
Further reading
- “Gymnasium” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Gymnasium” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Gymnasium” in Duden online
- Gymnasium on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γυμνάσιον (Gumnásion, diminutive of Γυμνάς (Gumnás)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡymˈna.si.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d͡ʒimˈnaː.s̬i.um]
Proper noun
Gymnasium f sg (genitive Gymnasiī); second declension
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, character in the play Cistellaria of Plautus
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Gymnasium |
genitive | Gymnasiī |
dative | Gymnasiō |
accusative | Gymnasium |
ablative | Gymnasiō |
vocative | Gymnasium |
References
- “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.