Gymnasium

Borrowed from Latin gymnasium, from Ancient Greek γυμνάσιον (gumnásion, “exercise, school”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʏmˈnaːziʊm/

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Gymnasium n (strong, genitive Gymnasiums, plural Gymnasien)

1. grammar school (UK), prep school (US) (school used to prepare students for university)

   Coordinate terms: Grundschule, Hauptschule, Realschule, Internat

   das Gymnasium absolvieren ― to complete a grammar school education

• → Hungarian: gimnázium
• → Lower Sorbian: gymnazium
• → Polish: gimnazjum

• “Gymnasium” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Gymnasium” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Gymnasium” in Duden online
• Gymnasium on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γυμνάσιον (Gumnásion, diminutive of Γυμνάς (Gumnás)).

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

Gymnasium f sg (genitive Gymnasiī); second declension

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, character in the play Cistellaria of Plautus
   • c. 203 BCE, Plautus, Cistellaria 1.1.109:

     sed tu, Gymnasium mea

     but you, my Gymnasium

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

• “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.