lycée

From French lycée. Doublet of lyceum.

lycée (plural lycées)

1. A public secondary school in France.

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").

• IPA^(key): /li.se/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Homophone: lycées
• Hyphenation: ly‧cée

lycée m (plural lycées)

1. a public secondary school

• lycéen

• collège

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

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