gymnasiumの意味・使い方・発音

gymnasium

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ジムナジウム

ギリシャ語のgymnos、裸、裸のジム通いが語源で、現在はフィットネスジムを指す。古代ギリシャ時代には、人体の美しさを見せるために裸体で運動する習慣があったからだ。古代ギリシャの様々な裸体像をご覧ください。

gymnasium: gymnasium: [16] Greek gumnós meant ‘naked’. It was customary in ancient times for athletes to train naked, and so the verb gumnázein came to mean ‘train, practise’ – particularly by doing exercises (whence English gymnast [16]). From the verb was derived the noun gumnásion, which Latin borrowed as gymnasium ‘school’. This academic sense has never caught on to any extent in English (although it is the word’s only application in German); we have preferred to go back to the original athletic connotations.
gymnasium (n.): 1590s, "place of exercise," from Latin gymnasium "school for gymnastics," from Greek gymnasion "public place where athletic exercises are practiced; gymnastics school," in plural, "bodily exercises," from gymnazein "to exercise or train," literally or figuratively, literally "to train naked," from gymnos "naked," from a metathesis of PIE *nogw-mo-, suffixed form of *nogw- "naked" (see naked).

A feature of all ancient Greek communities, at first it was merely an open space, later with extensive facilities and including training for the mind as well as the body. Hence its use in German from 15c. as a name for "high school" (more or less paralleling a sense also in Latin); in English it has remained purely athletic. For the "continental high school sense," English in 19c. sometimes used gymnastical as an adjective, gymnasiast for a student.

3.The basketball nets hung down from the ceiling at either end of the gymnasium .: バスケットはそれぞれ体育館の両端の天井からぶら下がっている。

4.The daily tariff includes accommodation and unlimited use of the pool and gymnasium .: 日常的な料金には、宿泊やプール、ジムの非制限的な利用が含まれています。

5.It took us several hours to get the gymnasium ready for the ball.: 私たちは数時間かけてダンスパーティー用に体育館を片付けた。