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.

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)).

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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.

Case 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.