gymnasion

But when he had graduated from the provincial "gymnasion," he naturally came to Athens in order to complete his education in the

Life Immovable First Part Kostes Palamas 1901

I've been slowly working my way through The Russian Language Today, by Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke and Terence Wade—an excellent and detailed discussion of the changes in Russian since 1917—and have gotten to the section on "The restoration of pre-Soviet lexis in the cultural sphere," which contains this analysis of the histories and current situations of the terms litsei (ultimately from Latin lyceum and Greek lykeion, the name of Aristotle's school) and gimnaziya (ultimately from Latin gymnasium and Greek gymnasion, a place for exercising):The renaming of educational establishments has reached mammoth proportions.

languagehat.com: LITSEI/GIMNAZIYA. 2004