different between gymnastics vs gymnasium
gymnastics
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (gumnasía, “athletic training, exercise”), from ?????? (gumnós, “naked”), because Greek athletes trained naked.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /d??m?næs.t?ks/
Noun
gymnastics (uncountable)
- A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.
- Gymnastics was a significant part of the physical education curriculum.
- Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.
- His mental gymnastics are legendary.
Derived terms
- artistic gymnastics
- rhythmic gymnastics
Related terms
- gym
- gymnasium
- gymnast
- gymnastic
Translations
See also
- gymnastics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gymnastics on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
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gymnasium
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)
- (formal) A large room or building for indoor sports.
- A type of secondary school in some European countries which typically prepares students for university.
- (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
- (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-)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- alternative form of gymnas
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
gymnasium n (definite singular gymnasiet, indefinite plural gymnasium, definite plural gymnasia)
- alternative form of gymnas
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j?m?n??s??m/, /j?m?n??s??/
Noun
gymnasium n
- gymnasium; an upper secondary school: either theoretical ("preparing for further studies") or vocational
Declension
Synonyms
- gymnasieskola
See also
- gymnasist
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