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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

  • καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν γυμνάσιον ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοισ κατὰ τὰ νόμιμα τῶν ἐθνῶν (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 1:14)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ὑπισχνεῖτο καὶ ἕτερα διαγράψαι πεντήκοντα πρὸσ τοῖσ ἑκατόν, ἐὰν συγχωρηθῇ διὰ τῆσ ἐξουσίασ αὐτοῦ γυμνάσιον καὶ ἐφηβεῖον αὐτῷ συστήσασθαι καὶ τοὺσ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοισ Ἀντιοχεῖσ ἀναγράψαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:9)
  • ἀσμένωσ γὰρ ὑπ̓ αὐτὴν τὴν ἀκρόπολιν γυμνάσιον καθίδρυσε καὶ τοὺσ κρατίστουσ τῶν ἐφήβων ὑποτάσσων ὑπὸ πέτασον ἦγεν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:12)
  • ὥστε μὴ μόνον ἐπ’ αὐτῇ τῇ ἄκρᾳ τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἡμῶν γυμνάσιον κατασκευάσαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ καταλῦσαι τὴν τοῦ ἱεροῦ κηδεμονίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 4:20)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπεὶ τάχιστα εἰσ τὴν Ἦλιν ἀφικόμην, διὰ τοῦ γυμνασίου ἀνιὼν ἐπήκουον ἅμα Κυνικοῦ τινοσ μεγάλῃ καὶ τραχείᾳ τῇ φωνῇ τὰ συνήθη ταῦτα καὶ ἐκ τριόδου τὴν ἀρετὴν ἐπιβοωμένου καὶ ἅπασιν ἁπαξαπλῶσ λοιδορουμένου. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 4:3)
  • ὁ μὲν χῶροσ αὐτόσ, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, γυμνάσιον ὑφ’ ἡμῶν ὀνομάζεται καὶ ἔστιν ἱερὸν Ἀπόλλωνοσ τοῦ Λυκείου. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 7:2)

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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