schola Latin · revision 3710

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Lucilius|origins=grc σχολή}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈskʰɔ.ɫa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈskɔː.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''schola''' ''f'' (genitive scholae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|σχολή|tr=skholḗ|t=leisure; learned discussion]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Saalfeld 1874) The Greek sense “leisure” developed into “leisure spent on learning” and then “lecture, school”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found in Lucilius (c. 180–102 BC), who uses the Greek accusative ''scholen'' of the school that Polemon handed on to Crates.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a lecture or learned discussion, as Cicero's lectures lasting five days, and a school of philosophy or rhetoric where a teacher set out his views.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) By metonymy it meant the followers of a teacher, a school of medicine, law or philosophy, as the school of Erasistratus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It was also a hall or exedra with benches, and an art gallery.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In Late and Medieval Latin it was a corps of guards, a guild or college, and a school in general.^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) Old English ''scol'' was borrowed from it, the source of English ''school''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of a philosophical school.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of lectures.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Old English – ''scol'' is borrowed from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A lecture, learned discussion.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|school]] (of philosophy, rhetoric).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The followers of a teacher, a school, sect.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A hall with benches, an [[m|en|exedra]]; an art gallery.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A corps, guild.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scholāris]]

+ * [[scholasticē]]

+ * [[scholasticus]]

+ * [[en|school]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes ''ludus'', a school for boys, from ''schola'', a higher school for youths and men who wish to learn.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}