σχολή

From Proto-Hellenic *skʰolā́ (“holding back”), from Proto-Indo-European *sǵʰ-h₃-léh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold”). Synchronically analyzed as a formation from the aorist stem σχ- (skh-) of ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”).^[1]

σχολή • (skholḗ) f (genitive σχολῆς); first declension

1. leisure, free time
2. rest
3. that in which leisure time is spent, especially lecture, disputation, discussion
4. philosophy
5. place where lectures were given, school, lecture hall
6. (in the plural) the Praetorian guard (see Latin scholae)

• σχολαῖος (skholaîos)
• σχολάζω (skholázō)
• σχολεῖον (skholeîon)
• σχολικός (skholikós)
• σχόλιον (skhólion)

• “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”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

• IPA^(key): /sxoˈli/

σχολή • (scholí) f (plural σχολές)

1. faculty, school (division of institutions of higher education)

   νομική σχολή ― nomikí scholí ― faculty of law

   νυχτερινή σχολή ― nychteriní scholí ― evening school

• σχολή, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language