Gymnasium

== German == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin gymnasium, from Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, “exercise, school”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡʏmˈnaːziʊm/ === 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]): ==== Declension ==== Alternatively declined like gymnasium (with vocative and ablative). ==== Hypernyms ==== weiterführende Schule ==== Descendants ==== → Czech: gymnázium → Hungarian: gimnázium → Lower Sorbian: gymnazium → Polish: gimnazjum → Slovak: gymnázium === 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. === 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.