escoler

Galician

Etymology

From Old French escoler, from Latin scholaris, with the semantic evolution: "having knowledge" > "practitioner" > "having supernatural powers".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eskɔˈlɛɾ/

Noun

escoler m (plural escoleres)

1. (folklore) wizard, sorcerer
   • 1846, anonymous, Carta de Cristobo a seu tío don Alifonso de Santiago:

     os demos tamén berraban chamando por escoleres e por meigas de máis fama qu'os arrigasen da Cruña e os lovasen para Francia

     also the demons were shouting, calling for more famous sorcerers and witches who could uproot them from a Coruña and take them to France

   Synonyms: feiticeiro, mago

2. (folklore) supernatural being who causes storms and controls the weather

   Synonym: nubeiro

Related terms

• escola
• escolante

Derived terms

• escolería

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escoler”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aire escoler”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Old French

Alternative forms

• escolier

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola.

Noun

escoler oblique singular, m (oblique plural escolers, nominative singular escolers, nominative plural escoler)

1. school pupil
   • circa 1250, Rutebeuf, De l'Estat du Monde:

     Briefment, tuit clerc, fors escoler,
     Vuelent Avarisce acoler.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

  Declension of escoler  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	Subject	escolers	escolere
	Oblique	escoler	escolere
Plural	Subject	escoler	escoleres
	Oblique	escolers	escoleres

Descendants

• → Galician: escoler
• Middle French: escolier
  • French: écolier