gymnasium

From Latin gymnasium, from Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, “exercise, school”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”), because Greek athletes trained naked.

• (US) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪmˈneɪ.zi.əm/

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gymnasium (plural gymnasia or gymnasiums)

1. (formal) A large room or building for indoor sports.
2. A type of secondary school in some European countries which typically prepares students for university; grammar school, prep school
3. (historical) A public place or building where Ancient Greek youths took exercise, with running and wrestling grounds, baths, and halls for conversation.

   Alternative form: gymnasion

• (large room or building for indoor sports): gym
• (type of secondary school): prep school, college prep school

• gymnastics

• gymnázium

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪmnaːzɪjum]
• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪmnazɪjum]

gymnasium n

1. (archaic) grammar school

• “gymnasium”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “gymnasium”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin gymnasium, from Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, “exercise, school”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡymnaːsjɔm/, [ɡ̊ymˈnæːˀɕɔm]
• Rhymes: -ɔm

gymnasium n (singular definite gymnasiet, plural indefinite gymnasier, in compounds: gymnasie-)

1. gymnasium (a type of secondary school)

• gymnasium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Latin gymnasium, from Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, “exercise, school”).

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• Hyphenation: gym‧na‧si‧um

gymnasium n (plural gymnasia or gymnasiums, diminutive gymnasiumpje n)

1. a type of secondary school (for 12 to 18 year-olds) which prepares students for university or vocational school, and which offers classes in Latin and/or Greek
2. school of sports which the Greeks had in antiquity

• gym

• → Indonesian: gimnasium

• atheneum

From Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, “exercise, school”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”), because Greek athletes trained naked.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡymˈna.si.um/, [ɡʏmˈnäs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒimˈna.si.um/, [d͡ʒimˈnäːs̬ium]

gymnasium n (genitive gymnasiī or gymnasī); second declension

1. gymnasium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gymnasium	gymnasia
Genitive	gymnasiī gymnasī1	gymnasiōrum
Dative	gymnasiō	gymnasiīs
Accusative	gymnasium	gymnasia
Ablative	gymnasiō	gymnasiīs
Vocative	gymnasium	gymnasia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• gymnasticus

• → Albanian: gjimnaz
• Catalan: gimnàs
• French: gymnase
• Galician: ximnasio
• → German: Gymnasium (see there for further descendants)
• Italian: ginnasio
• Portuguese: ginásio
• Romanian: gimnaziu
• Spanish: gimnasio

• “gymnasium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gymnasium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gymnasium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• gymnasium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “gymnasium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gymnasium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “gymnasium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

gymnasium n (definite singular gymnasiet, indefinite plural gymnasier, definite plural gymnasia or gymnasiene)

1. alternative form of gymnas

gymnasium n (definite singular gymnasiet, indefinite plural gymnasium, definite plural gymnasia)

1. alternative form of gymnas

• gymnasie (nonstandard)

• IPA^(key): /jʏmˈnɑːsɪɵm/

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gymnasium n

1. gymnasium; upper secondary school: either theoretical ("preparing for further studies") or vocational, most commonly three years long (grades 10-12)
2. a (part of a) school where gymnasium students are taught

   Synonym: gymnasieskola

• gymnasieskola

• gymnasist
• lågstadium (grades 1-3)
• mellanstadium (grades 4-6)
• högstadium (grades 7-9)
• högskola
• universitet
• high school (“American secondary school”)

• gymnasium in Svensk ordbok.