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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

  • 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)
  • νῦν δὴ τὸν ἐκ θἠμετέρου γυμνασίου δεῖ τι λέγειν καινόν, ὅπωσ φανήσει ‐ ἐνεγκάτω μοι δεῦρο τὴν κίστην τισ ὡσ τάχιστα. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, strophe1)
  • καλῶσ γέ μου τὸν υἱὸν ὦ Στιλβωνίδη εὑρὼν ἀπιόντ’ ἀπὸ γυμνασίου λελουμένον οὐκ ἔκυσασ, οὐ προσεῖπασ, οὐ προσηγάγου, οὐκ ὠρχιπέδισασ, ὢν ἐμοὶ πατρικὸσ φίλοσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 4:17)
  • τὸν ἐκ τοῦ γυμνασίου νεανίσκον ἐπετίμων, ὅτι τὴν εἰσ Πυλαίαν ὁδὸν ἠπίστατο. (Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, section 381)
  • "συνέβη δέ, ὥσ φησι, τὸν Χάρμον ἐραστὴν τοῦ Ἱππίου γενέσθαι καὶ τὸν πρὸσ Ἀκαδημίᾳ Ἔρωτα ἱδρύσασθαι πρῶτον, ἐφ’ οὗ ἐπιγέγραπται ποικιλομήχαν’ Ἔρωσ, σοὶ τόνδ’ ἱδρύσατο βωμὸν Χάρμοσ ἐπὶ σκιεροῖσ τέρμασι γυμνασίου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 89 4:1)

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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