schola

English

Etymology

From Latin schola.

Noun

schola (plural scholas or scholae)

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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskʰo.la/, [ˈs̠kʰɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.la/, [ˈskɔːlä]

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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

• Gallo-Italic
  • Lombard: scöla, scöra
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: scola
  • Dalmatian: scol, skól, skuol, scol, scól, scuol
  • Italian: scuola, scola (dialectal or archaic); squola (misspelling)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: škȏla／шко̑ла
  • Neapolitan: scola
  • Sicilian: scola
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: escola
  • Occitan: escòla
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: scuele
  • Ladin: scola
  • Romansch: scola, scoula (Puter, Vallader)
• Sardinian: isciola, iscola, scola
• Venetian: scoła, scola
  • → Cimbrian: skoul
• West Iberian
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: escuela
    • Mirandese: scuola
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: escola
    • Galician: escola
    • Portuguese: escola (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish:
    • Ladino:

      Hebrew script: סקולה

      Latin script: skola, eskola

    • Spanish: escuela (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: shkollë
• → Proto-Brythonic: *skol, *ɨskol
  • Breton: skol
  • Cornish: skol, scol
  • Welsh: ysgol
• → English: schola
• → Old French: escole
  • Franc-Comtois: écôle
  • Middle French: eschole
    • French: école
      • Haitian Creole: lekòl
      • → Bambara: ekɔli, lakɔli
      • → Moore: lekolle
      • Turkish: ekol
  • Norman: êcole
  • Walloon: scole, sicole
• → Old Irish: scol
  • Irish: scoil
  • Manx: scoill
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgoil
• • Old English: scōl (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Frisian: skūle
    • Saterland Frisian: Skoule
    • West Frisian: skoalle
  • Old Saxon:
    • Middle Low German: schôle
      • Low German: School

        Dutch Low Saxon: skole

        German Low German: School

        Plautdietsch: School

      • → Estonian: kool
      • → Old Norse: skóli
        • Icelandic: skóli
        • Faroese: skúli
        • Elfdalian: skaule
        • Danish: skole
        • Norwegian: skole
        • Swedish: skola
  • Old Dutch:
    • Middle Dutch: schôle (see there for further descendants)
  • Old High German: scuola (see there for further descendants)
  • → Finnish: koulu (early borrowing via some Germanic language), skole (later borrowing)
• → Polish: szkoła (see there for further descendants)

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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• 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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin schola.

Noun

schola f (plural scholas)

1. Obsolete spelling of escola.