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γυμνάσιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γυμνάσιον

Structure: γυμνασι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: gumna/zw

Sense

  1. bodily exercises
  2. the public place where athletic exercises were practised, the gymnastic school, school, hippodrome

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰ δὲ βούλεσθε πάντωσ ἐλεύθεροι καὶ εὐδαίμονεσ εἶναι, ἄλλων ὑμῖν γυμνασίων δεήσει καὶ ἀσκήσεωσ ἀληθινῆσ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ, καὶ ἡ ἅμιλλα οὐ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ μετὰ παιδιᾶσ, ἀλλὰ πρὸσ τοὺσ δυσμενεῖσ ἔσται μετὰ κινδύνων μελετῶσι τὴν ἀρετήν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 32:4)
  • γυμνασίων γάρ τὸ κάλλιστόν τε ἅμα καὶ εὐρυθμότατον τοῦτο φαίην ἂν ἔγωγε εἶναι, μαλάττον μὲν τὸ σῶμα καὶ κάμπτον καὶ κουφίζον καὶ εὐχερὲσ εἶναι πρὸσ μεταβολὴν διδάσκον, ἰσχύν τε οὐ μικρὰν περιποιοῦν τοῖσ σώμασιν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 71:4)
  • οὐ μικρὰ δὲ οὐδὲ ἐκεῖνα παρέχει τοῖσ ζηλοῦν ἐθέλουσι παραδείγματα, τῆσ τροφῆσ τὸ ἀπέριττον καὶ τῶν γυμνασίων τὸ σύμμετρον καὶ τοῦ προσώπου τὸ αἰδέσιμον καὶ τῆσ ἐσθῆτοσ τὸ μέτριον, ἐφ’ ἅπασι δὲ τούτοισ τῆσ διανοίασ τὸ ἡρμοσμένον καὶ τὸ ἥμερον τοῦ τρόπου. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 26:2)
  • ἐμοὶ δὲ ὑπὲρ τῶν γυμνασίων τῶν ἱππικῶν ὡρ́α ἤδη λέγειν. (Arrian, chapter 33 9:1)
  • τὰ δὲ σὰ δροσόεντα λουτρὰ γυμνασίων τε δρόμοι βεβᾶσι, σὺ δὲ πρόσωπα νεα‐ ρὰ χάρισι παρὰ Διὸσ θρόνοισ καλλιγάλανα τρέφεισ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 24)

Synonyms

  1. bodily exercises

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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