lycée French · revision 17670

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1721, Dictionnaire de Trévoux|origins=grc λύκος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /li.se/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lycée''' ''m'' (plural lycées)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the use as a common noun (1721) of the proper name (1568; [[m|frm|Lyceon]], 1534) of the gymnasium north-east of Athens where Aristotle taught.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005) The name was borrowed from [[la|Lyceum]], from [[grc|Λύκειον|tr=Lúkeion]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(FEW|5, 481a)

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+ The Greek name is generally explained as “place with wolves”, from [[m|grc|λύκος|tr=lúkos|t=wolf]], like the old sense of [[Louvre]] in French.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) Littré says it was named after the nearby temple of Apollo [[m|grc|Λύκειος|tr=Lúkeios]], an epithet meaning “of wolves” or, according to others, “luminous”;^(Littré 1873)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary gives the epithet as of uncertain meaning, perhaps “wolf-killing”, “Lycian” or “luminous”.^(Littré 1873)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'' (1721) uses ''lycée'' for a place where men of letters meet.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 18th century the word was used in elevated style for a place where scholars gather; about 1790 it took the narrower sense of a place devoted to teaching (''lycée civique et national'').^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) The law of 11 Floréal year X (1802) gave it its modern sense, a state secondary school, originally for boys, often with boarders.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(BHVF) Bloch and Wartburg note that the name was replaced by ''collège royal'' in 1815 and restored in 1848.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) In Belgium it named a secondary school for girls.^(Petit Robert 2007) The noun [[lycéen]] dates from 1819.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1534 – ''Lyceon'', Aristotle's school, in Bonaventure des Périers.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1568 – ''Lycée'' as a proper name.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1721 – A meeting place of men of letters.^(TLFi)

+ * 1790 – A place of instruction.^(TLFi)

+ * 1802 – A state secondary school.^(TLFi)^(BHVF)

+ * 1815 – Renamed ''collège royal''; restored in 1848.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1819 – ''Lycéen''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # In France, a public [[m|en|secondary school]] where pupils prepare the [[baccalauréat]]: ''aller au lycée'', ''lycée professionnel''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # The years spent at such a school: ''depuis le lycée''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(Belgium)'' A secondary school for girls.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(history)'' A meeting place of scholars, ''le Lycée'', the school of [[Aristote|alt=Aristotle]] at Athens.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lycéen]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[loup]]

+ * [[grc|Λύκειον|tr=Lúkeion]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Wiktionary also records a Middle French adjective ''lycée'', an epithet of Apollo, from Latin [[m|la|Lycēus]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}