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gymnasium1

gymnasium1 · n

a public school among the Greeks for gymnastic exercises

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Where it lives

Timoleon 1 · 12.08/10k
Cistellaria 5 · 9.56/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 3 · 2.37/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. gymnăsĭum — Lewis & Short

gymnăsĭum, ii, n., =gumna/sion,

I a public school among the Greeks for gymnastic exercises, a gymnasium.

I Lit., Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 3; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 21; id. Ep. 2, 2, 13; Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 151; id. Rep. 3, 32; 4, 4: virgineum (in Sparta), Prop. 3, 14, 2; Ov. H. 16, 151; Cels. 5, 11; 15; Plin. Ep. 10, 40, 2; Quint. 2, 8, 3 al.—Comically: gymnasium flagri, qs. school for the scourge, whipping-post, a term of reproach applied to one who is often flogged, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 31; cf.: totus doleo, ita me iste habuit senex gymnasium, i. e. he has belabored me so, id. Aul. 3, 1, 5.—

II Transf., a public school among the Greeks, a highschool, college: omnia gymnasia atque omnes philosophorum scholae, Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 56; Liv. 29, 19, 12; Plin. Ep. 1, 22, 6; Juv. 3, 115: quae vix in gymnasiis et in otio Stoici probant, Cic. Par. prooem. 1.— Transf., of a college-building on Cicero's Tusculan estate: cum ambulandi causa in Lyceum venissemus (id enim superiori gymnasio nomen est), etc., Cic. Div. 1, 5, 8; cf. id. Tusc. 2, 3, 9.

2. Gymnăsium — Lewis & Short

Gymnăsium, ii, f. (*gumna/sion, dim. of *gumna/s),

I name of a Greek maiden: Gymnasium mea, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 109.

In the wild

gymnasio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.37.p1
gymnasi Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.4.3
gymnasi Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.8.2
gymnasiis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.5.p1
gymnasia Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.IX.p14
Gymnasium Plautus, Asinaria 2.2

6 of 97 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. gymnasium (scan p. 310; entry #4880).

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