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 & 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 (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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