scholasticus Latin · revision 33325

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=grc σχολαστικός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [skʰɔˈɫas.tɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [skoˈlas.ti.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scholasticus''' (feminine scholastica, neuter scholasticum, adverb scholasticē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''scolasticus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|σχολαστικός|tr=skholastikós|t=at leisure; devoting one's leisure to learning]],^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline) from [[m|grc|σχολάζω|tr=skholázō|t=to have leisure]] and [[m|grc|σχολή|tr=skholḗ|t=leisure; school]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Varro's ''Menippean Satires'', with the noun, a man of the schools of rhetoric.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it means of or suited to a school of rhetoric, especially in ''contrōversia scholastica'', a debate on an imaginary case in the schools:^(OLD 2012) Quintilian speaks of school subjects that could still arise in the forum, and Gellius of school declamations.^(OLD 2012) As a noun it is a person who attends a school of rhetoric, student or teacher:^(OLD 2012) the ''Catalepton'' ascribed to Virgil bids farewell to the empty bombast of the rhetoricians and ''scholasticorum natio'', and Quintilian recalls learning the rules of life while still students.^(OLD 2012) Apuleius uses it jokingly of a young, inexperienced man.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is a teacher or rhetorician,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval Latin used it for a scholar or man of letters, a learned lawyer, and the master of a cathedral school.^(Niermeyer 1976) In British medieval Latin it means of a school or university, and Bacon and Thomas More use it of the scholastic manner of teaching.^(DMLBS) Later it became the name of the philosophy of the schoolmen, especially of Thomas Aquinas.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of a man of the schools.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of school debates and students of rhetoric.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius, jokingly of an inexperienced youth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – A scholar, a learned lawyer, a schoolmaster.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ * 1590s – English [[m|en|scholastic]], through French, of the scholastic theologians.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a school of [[m|en|rhetoric]], scholastic.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|scholarly|alt=Scholarly]].^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of a school or [[m|en|university]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A student or teacher of rhetoric.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A [[m|en|scholar]]; jokingly, an inexperienced young man.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A learned [[m|en|lawyer]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The master of a cathedral school.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[schola]]

+ * [[en|scholastic]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}