different between gymnasium vs gym

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /d??m?ne?.zi.?m/

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.
3. (historical) A public place or building where Ancient Greek youths took exercise, with running and wrestling grounds, baths, and halls for conversation.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• gymnastics

Translations

Czech

Alternative forms

• gymnázium

Noun

gymnasium n

1. (archaic) grammar school

Declension

Further reading

• gymnasium in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• gymnasium in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ymna?sj?m/, [??ym?næ????m]
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

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

1. gymnasium (a type of secondary school)

Inflection

Further reading

• gymnasium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gym?na?si?um

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ym?na.si.um/, [??m?näs?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d??im?na.si.um/, [d??im?n??s?ium]

Noun

gymnasium n (genitive gymnasi? or gymnas?); second declension

1. gymnasium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Related terms

• gymnasticus

Descendants

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

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
• gymnasium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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 (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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. alternative form of gymnas

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. alternative form of gymnas

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?m?n??s??m/, /j?m?n??s??/

Noun

gymnasium n

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

Declension

Synonyms

• gymnasieskola

See also

• gymnasist

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??m/
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: Jim

Noun

gym (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnasium.
2. (uncountable) clipping of gymnastics. (often as sense 4)
3. (weightlifting) A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise.
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii

     Working out in commercial gyms, if anything, made my workouts worse instead of better.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Pete, I want to work out. Where is the gym?

4. physical education class

Synonyms

• (sports facility for exercise): fitness center, health club, sports club

Derived terms

Related terms

• gymnasium
• gymnast
• gymnastics

Translations

Verb

gym (third-person singular simple present gyms, present participle gyming or gymming, simple past and past participle gymed or gymmed)

1. (intransitive) To go to the gym.

   On Wednesdays I hike; on Fridays I gym.

Anagrams

• YGM

Danish

Noun

gym (not declinable)

1. (slang) gymnasium

French

Noun

gym f (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymanstique.

gym m (plural gyms)

1. Clipping of gymnase.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

gym n (plural gymmen, diminutive gymmetje n)

1. short for gymnasium, a special type of secondary school

Noun

gym m (uncountable)

1. short for gymnastiek, physical education class

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

• gymsal

References

• “gym” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gym m (definite singular gymmen)

1. clipping of gymnastikk.

Derived terms

• gymsal

References

• “gym” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Alternative forms

yim

Etymology

Borrowed from English gym.

Noun

gym m (plural gyms)

1. gym, gymnasium

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gym, clipping of gymnasium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?m/

Noun

gym n

1. gym; a sporting facility specialized on exercising strength, lifting weights.

Declension

Derived terms

• gymma