lycée

common nounproper noun

Syllable Decomposition

lye

from lycée, derived from the Latin lyceum, and further back, from the Greek, a philosophical school founded by Aristotle which was a gymnasium (hence the common German word gymnasium for a secondary school) in the northeast of Athens.

Definition

Plural

lycées

Translations

  • germangerman:Lyzeum
  • englishenglish:high school
  • arabicarabic:ثانوية
  • spanishspanish:preparatoria
  • dutchdutch:lyceum
  • polishpolish:liceum
  • russianrussian:лицей

See also

lycéen (adj.) lycéen (cn.)