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Where does “Lycée” come from?

Lycée (Luxembourgish) comes from French lycée, from Latin Lyceum, from Greek λύκειο, from Ancient Greek Λύκειον, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων Λύκειος — Apollo of Lyceus.

Lycée (Luxembourgish): grammar school

Definitions

  1. grammar school

Ancestry of “Lycée”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchlycéea public secondary school
2LatinLyceum—
3Greekλύκειοsecondary school , high school; lyceum;...
4Ancient GreekΛύκειον—
5Ancient GreekἈπόλλων ΛύκειοςApollo of Lyceus
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