Gymnasium
See also: gymnasium
German
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin gymnasium, from Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, “exercise, school”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editGymnasium 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.
Declension
editDeclension of Gymnasium [neuter, strong]
Alternatively declined like gymnasium (with vocative and ablative).
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Γυμνάσιον (Gumnásion, diminutive of Γυμνάς (Gumnás)).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ɡymˈna.si.um/, [ɡʏmˈnäs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d͡ʒimˈna.si.um/, [d͡ʒimˈnäːs̬ium]
Proper noun
editGymnasium f sg (genitive Gymnasiī); second declension
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, character in the play Cistellaria of Plautus
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Gymnasium |
Genitive | Gymnasiī |
Dative | Gymnasiō |
Accusative | Gymnasium |
Ablative | Gymnasiō |
Vocative | Gymnasium |
References
edit- “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.
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