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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *skʰolā́, from Proto-Indo-European *sǵʰ-h₃-léh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold”), whence ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skʰo.lɛ̌ː/ → /sxoˈli/ → /sxoˈli/
Noun
σχολή • (skholḗ) f (genitive σχολῆς); first declension
- leisure, free time
- rest
- that in which leisure time is spent, especially lecture, disputation, discussion
- philosophy
- place where lectures were given, school, lecture hall
- (in the plural) the Praetorian guard (see Latin scholae)
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “σχολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σχολή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4981 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dilatoriness idem, page 224.
- ease idem, page 259.
- holiday idem, page 403.
- idleness idem, page 413.
- inaction idem, page 427.
- indolence idem, page 434.
- lecture idem, page 484.
- leisure idem, page 485.
- rest idem, page 704.
- slackness idem, page 782.
- sloth idem, page 785.
- time idem, page 875.
- vacation idem, page 942.
- σχολή - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).
Pronunciation
Noun
σχολή • (scholí) f (plural σχολές)
- faculty, school (division of institutions of higher education)
- νομική σχολή ― nomikí scholí ― faculty of law
- νυχτερινή σχολή ― nychteriní scholí ― evening school
Declension
Further reading
- σχολή - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.