Gymnasium=الجمنازيوم
- ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- gymnasium
(n.)
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1590s, "place of exercise," from L. gymnasium "school
for gymnastics," from Gk. gymnasion "public place where
athletic exercises are practiced; gymnastics school," in
plural, "bodily exercises," from gymnazein "to
exercise or train," literally or figuratively, lit. "to
train naked," from gymnos "naked" (see naked).
Introduced to German 15c. as a name for "high school"
(more or less paralleling a sense in Latin); in English it has
remained purely athletic.
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