gymnasium

See also: Gymnasium

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /dʒɪmˈneɪzi.əm/

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Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• gymnastics

Translations

place for indoor sports

• Basque: gimnasio (eu)
• Bulgarian: гимнастически салон m (gimnastíčeski salón)
• Catalan: gimnàs (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 健身室 (gin⁶ san¹ sat¹), gym房 (zim¹ fong²)

  Mandarin: 健身房 (zh) (jiànshēnfáng)

• Czech: tělocvična f
• Dutch: turnzaal m, gymnastiekzaal m
• Finnish: liikuntasali, kuntosali (fi)
• French: gymnase (fr) m, salle de gymnastique (fr) f
• Galician: ximnasio (gl) m
• German: Sporthalle (de) f, Turnhalle (de) f, Gymnastikraum m, Fitnessstudio (de) n
• Greek: γυμναστήριο (el) n (gymnastírio)
• Hungarian: (smaller:) tornaterem (hu), (bigger:) tornacsarnok
• Icelandic: íþróttahús n, leikfimisalur m
• Ido: gimnastikeyo (io)
• Italian: palestra (it) f
• Japanese: 体育館 (ja) (たいいくかん, taiikukan)
• Korean: 체육관 (ko) (cheyukgwan)
• Malay: gimnasium

• Maori: whare whakapakari, whare whakapakari tinana
• Navajo: biiʼndaʼaʼnéhé
• Norwegian: sportshall m

  Bokmål: gymnastikksal m, gymsal m

  Nynorsk: gymnastikksal m, gymsal m

• Polish: siłownia (pl) f, sala gimnastyczna f
• Portuguese: ginásio (pt) m, academia (pt) f
• Romanian: sală de gimnastică f, hală de gimnastică f
• Russian: спортза́л (ru) m (sportzál), гимнасти́ческий зал m (gimnastíčeskij zal), джим (ru) m (džim)
• Scottish Gaelic: ionad-cleasachd m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гимнастичка сала f, теретана f

  Roman: gimnastička sala f, teretana (sh) f

• Spanish: gimnasio (es)
• Swedish: gymnastiksal (sv) c, sporthall c
• Turkish: spor salonu, jimnastik salonu
• Vietnamese: thể dục (vi)
• Volapük: turöp
• Welsh: campfa (cy) f

type of school

• Bulgarian: гимназия (bg) f (gimnázija)
• Catalan: gimnàs (ca) m
• Czech: gymnázium (cs) n
• Danish: gymnasium (da) n
• Esperanto: gimnazio
• Finnish: lukio (fi)
• French: lycée (fr) m, (outside France) gymnase (fr) m
• German: Gymnasium (de) n
• Greek: γυμνάσιο (el) n (gymnásio), λύκειο (el) n (lýkeio)
• Hungarian: gimnázium (hu)
• Icelandic: menntaskóli (is) m, framhaldsskóli (is) m
• Ido: gimnazio (io)
• Italian: ginnasio (it), Liceo Classico

• Polish: gimnazjum (pl) n
• Portuguese: ginásio (pt) m
• Romanian: gimnaziu (ro) n
• Russian: гимна́зия (ru) f (gimnázija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гимназија f

  Roman: gimnazija (sh) f

• Slovene: gimnazija f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gymnazium m

• Swedish: gymnasium (sv)
• Turkish: lise (tr)
• Yiddish: גימנאַזיע‏‎ f (gimnazye)

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gymnasium n (singular definite gymnasiet, plural indefinite gymnasier)

1. gymnasium (a type of secondary school)

Inflection

Declension of gymnasium

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gymnasium	gymnasiet	gymnasier	gymnasierne
genitive	gymnasiums	gymnasiets	gymnasiers	gymnasiernes

External links

• gymnasium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

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• Hyphenation: gym‧na‧si‧um

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Related terms

• gym

See also

• atheneum

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡymˈna.si.um/, [ɡʏmˈna.si.ũ]

Noun

gymnasium n (genitive gymnasiī); second declension

1. a gymnasium

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	gymnasium	gymnasia
genitive	gymnasiī	gymnasiōrum
dative	gymnasiō	gymnasiīs
accusative	gymnasium	gymnasia
ablative	gymnasiō	gymnasiīs
vocative	gymnasium	gymnasia

Related terms

• gymnasticus

References

• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “gymnasium”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “gymnasium” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• gymnasium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gymnasium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) 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

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒʏmˈnɑːsɪɵm/

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Noun

gymnasium n

1. gymnasium; an upper secondary school: either theoretical ("preparing for further studies") or vocational

Declension

Declension of gymnasium
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gymnasium	gymnasiet	gymnasier	gymnasierna
Genitive	gymnasiums	gymnasiets	gymnasiers	gymnasiernas

Synonyms

• gymnasieskola

See also

• gymnasist