lycée

See also: lycee, and Lycée

English

Etymology

From French lycée. Doublet of lyceum.

Noun

lycée (plural lycées)

1. A public secondary school in France.

Translations

a public secondary school in France

• Burmese: အထက်တန်းကျောင်း (my) (a.htaktan:kyaung:)
• Catalan: liceu m
• Esperanto: liceo (eo)
• French: lycée (fr) m
• German: Lyzeum (de) n
• Greek: λύκειο (el) n (lýkeio)
• Indonesian: sekolah menengah (id)
• Japanese: 高等学校 (ja) (こうとうがっこう, kōtōgakkō), 中学校 (ja) (ちゅうがっこう, chūgakkō)
• Polish: liceum (pl) n
• Portuguese: liceu m
• Russian: лице́й (ru) m (licéj)
• Spanish: liceo (es) m
• Turkish: lise (tr)
• Zazaki: lisa

French

Etymology

From Latin lyceum, from Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion) (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school), from Λύκειος ("Lycian" or "wolf-killer").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.se/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Homophone: lycées
• Hyphenation: ly‧cée

Noun

lycée m (plural lycées)

1. a public secondary school

Derived terms

• lycéen

Related terms

• collège

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: لیسه (lise)
  • Turkish: lise
    • → Northern Kurdish: lîse
• → Persian: لیسه (lise)
• → Romanian: liceu

Further reading

• “lycée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “lycée” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.