σχολείο
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Greek
Alternative forms
- σχολειό (scholeió)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σχολεῖον (skholeîon), from σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”).
Pronunciation
Noun
σχολείο • (scholeío) n (plural σχολεία)
Declension
Declension of σχολείο
Coordinate terms
- σχολή f (scholí, “faculty”)
- λύκειο n (lýkeio, “secondary school, high school”)
- γυμνάσιο n (gymnásio, “secondary school, high school”)
- δημοτικό σχολείο n (dimotikó scholeío, “primary school, elementary school”)
Related terms
- ασκόλαστος (askólastos, “not at school”, adjective)
- σχολικός (scholikós, “scholastic”, adjective)
Descendants
Further reading
σχολείο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el- σχολείο, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
