schola

English

Etymology

From Latin schola.

Noun

schola (plural scholas)

1. Originally, a musical school attached to a monastery or church. Also known as a schola cantorum.
2. Today, a group of musicians, particularly one which specializes in liturgical music.

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskʰo.la/, [ˈskʰɔ.ɫa]

Noun

schola f (genitive scholae); first declension

1. Leisure time given to learning; schooltime, classtime.
   • c. ad 65, Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, CVI.

     non vitæ sed scholæ discimvs

     We learn [such literature] not for life but for schooltime.

2. A school; a place for learning or instruction.
   • 1804 Jun 12, Oberdeutsche Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung, No. 70, p. 1119

     non scholæ sed vitæ discendvm est

     We must learn not for school but for life.

3. A student body; the disciples of a teacher.
4. A sect; body of followers of a teacher or system, such as the Praetorian guard.
5. An art gallery.

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	schola	scholae
genitive	scholae	scholārum
dative	scholae	scholīs
accusative	scholam	scholās
ablative	scholā	scholīs
vocative	schola	scholae

Related terms

• scholāris
• scholasticē
• scholasticus

Descendants

• Albanian: shkollë (borrowed)
• Asturian: escuela
• Basque: eskola
• Catalan: escola
• Corsican: scola
• Czech: škola (borrowed)
• Danish: skole (borrowed)
• Dutch: school (borrowed)
  • Afrikaans: skool
• Estonian: kool (borrowed)
• Faroese: skúli (borrowed)
• Finnish: koulu (borrowed)
• Friulian: scuele
• Galician: escola
• Georgian: სკოლა (sḳola) (borrowed)

• Hungarian: iskola (borrowed)
• Icelandic: skóli (borrowed)
• Italian: scuola
• Ladin: scola
• Ladino: סקולה/skola
• Malay: sekolah (borrowed)
• Maltese: skola (borrowed)
• Neapolitan: scola
• Norwegian: skole/skule (borrowed)
• Occitan: escòla
• Old English: scōl (borrowed)
  • English: school
• Old French: escole
  • French: école
    • Haitian Creole: lekòl
    • Turkish: okul (borrowed)
  • Walloon: scole

• Old High German: scuola (borrowed)
  • German: Schule
    • Slovene: šola (borrowed)
    • Swahili: shule (borrowed)
  • Yiddish: שולע (shule)/‎שול (shul)
• Old Irish scol (borrowed)
  • Irish scoil
  • Manx scoill
  • Scottish-Gaelic sgoil
• Polish: szkoła (borrowed)
  • Russian: школа (škola) (borrowed)
• Portuguese: escola
  • Tetum: eskola
• Romanian: școală

• Romansh: scola, scoula
• Sardinian: isciola, iscola, scola
• Serbo-Croatian: (borrowed)

  Cyrillic: шко̑ла

  Roman: škȏla

• Sicilian: scola
• Slovak: škola (borrowed)
• Spanish: escuela
  • Tagalog: eskuwelahan (borrowed)
• Swedish: skola (borrowed)
• Ukrainian: школа (škóla) (borrowed)
• Venetian: scoła, scola
• Welsh: ysgol (borrowed)

References

• schola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• schola in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “schola” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a school for higher education: schola
    
  • to go to a school: scholam frequentare
    
  • to exert oneself in the schools: desudare in scholae umbra or umbraculis
    
  • a sect, school of thought: schola, disciplina, familia; secta
    
  • to give lectures: scholas habere, explicare (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • to attend lectures: scholis interesse
    
• schola in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin