escoler
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old French escoler,[1] from Latin scholaris, with the semantic evolution: "having knowledge" > "practitioner" > "having supernatural powers".
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
escoler m (plural escoleres)
- (folklore) wizard, sorcerer
- Synonyms: feiticeiro, mago
- 1846, anonymous author, 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
- (folklore) supernatural being who causes storms and controls the weather
- Synonym: nubeiro
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References edit
- “escoler” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “escoler” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “escoler” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “escoler” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “aire escoler” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “escuela”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Old French edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola.
Noun edit
escoler oblique singular, m (oblique plural escolers, nominative singular escolers, nominative plural escoler)
- school pupil
- c. 1250, Rutebeuf, De l'Estat du Monde:
- Briefment, tuit clerc, fors escoler,
Vuelent Avarisce acoler.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit
Declension of escoler