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liceu
high school /liˈtʃe.u/
noun#2981 most common
Also: lyceum, secondary school
Example sentences
Eu merg la liceu.
I go to high school.
Sora mea este elevă la liceu.
My sister is a student at high school.
Liceul meu este aproape de casă.
My high school is close to home.
După ce termină liceul, vrea să studieze medicina.
After finishing high school, she wants to study medicine.
Mulți absolvenți de liceu aleg să studieze în străinătate.
Many high school graduates choose to study abroad.
Reforma curriculară a liceelor a stârnit numeroase controverse în rândul profesorilor.
The curricular reform of high schools sparked numerous controversies among teachers.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | liceu / liceul | licee / liceele |
| Genitive | liceu / liceului | licee / liceelor |
| Accusative | liceu / liceul | licee / liceele |
| Vocative | liceule | liceelor |
Word family
liceanmale high school student
liceanăfemale high school student
licealof or relating to high school
absolvent de liceuhigh school graduate
Etymology
Liceu came into Romanian in the nineteenth century from French lycée, part of a wave of French borrowings tied to the modernization of Romanian schooling. Lycée itself traces to Greek Lykeion, the gymnasium near Athens where Aristotle taught. The Greek name referred to a nearby temple of Apollo Lykeios. The deeper origin of the epithet Lykeios is debated among specialists, so no single Proto-Indo-European root can be stated with confidence.
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