schola

See also: scholą

English

Etymology

From Latin schola. Doublet of school and shul.

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.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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 school (especially a secondary school), a sect; body of followers of a teacher or system, such as those of a philosopher or the Praetorian guard

   Near-synonym: lūdus

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

• scholasticus
• scholasticē
• scholāris

 

Descendants

• Gallo-Italic
  • Lombard: scöla, scöra
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: scola
  • Dalmatian: scol, skól, skuol, scol, scól, scuol
  • Gallurese: iscola
  • Italian: scuola, scola; squola
    • → Serbo-Croatian: škȏla／шко̑ла
  • Neapolitan: scola
  • Sassarese: ischora
  • Sicilian: scola
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: escola
  • Occitan: escòla
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: scuele
  • Ladin: scola
  • Romansch: scola, scoula
• Sardinian: isciola, iscola, scola
• Venetian: scoła, scola
  • → Cimbrian: skoul
• West Iberian
  • → Andalusian Arabic: اشكولة (ʔiškūla)
  • 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 (see there for further descendants)
• → 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
• → Proto-West Germanic: *skōlu (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: școală (via a Slavic language)

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

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of szkoła.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: scho‧la

Noun

schola f (diminutive scholka)

1. (education, music) schola (musical school attached to a monastery or church)

Declension

Declension of schola

	singular	plural
nominative	schola	schole
genitive	scholi	schol
dative	scholi	scholom
accusative	scholę	schole
instrumental	scholą	scholami
locative	scholi	scholach
vocative	scholo	schole

Further reading

• schola in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin schola.

Noun

schola f (plural scholas)

1. Obsolete spelling of escola