escolar

From Spanish escolar, because of a resemblance of the rings around the eyes to a scholar's spectacles. Doublet of scholar.

escolar (plural escolars)

1. Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, one of the snake mackerels.
   • 2013 February 20, Helen Thomson, “News Focus: Meat Scandal: What's On Your Plate?”, in New Scientist, volume 217, number 2904, page 7:

     And Oceana's study revealed that 94 per cent of “white tuna” was not tuna at all, but escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum). Consumption of more than 100 grams or so of this species causes severe diarrhoea.

2. Any fish of species Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish.
3. Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels).

• (perciform fish): snake mackerel, walu or waloo, butterfish, super white tuna, white tuna
• (perciform fish): (derogatory) ex-lax fish, laxative of the sea

• “escolar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “escolar”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• escolar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gempylidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Gempylidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Alcoser, Caleros, Calrose, coalers, oracles, recoals, solacer

Borrowed from Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

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escolar m or f by sense (plural escolars)

1. student; specifically someone who goes to school

• escolar negre

escolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural escolars)

1. scholarly; (relational) school

• escolaritzar

• escola

From es- +‎ colar.

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escolar (first-person singular present escolo, first-person singular preterite escolí, past participle escolat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to empty, to drain

   Synonyms: buidar, escórrer

2. (pronominal) to pour out, run out, flow out
3. (pronominal, figurative) (of time) to pass by, expire
4. (pronominal) to leak out; (of a person or animal) to bleed (out)

• escolament

• “escolar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “escolar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “escolar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escolar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escolar, from Latin scholaris.

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escolar m or f (plural escolares)

1. school

escolar m (plural escolares)

1. student

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escolar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escolar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escolar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escolar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “escolar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escolar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

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escolar m (feminine singular escolara, masculine plural escolars, feminine plural escolaras)

1. school

From Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

• Hyphenation: es‧co‧lar

escolar m or f (plural escolares)

1. (relational) scholar; school

   calendário escolar ― school calendar

   material escolar ― school supplies

• escola

• “escolar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

• IPA^(key): /eskoˈlaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧co‧lar

Borrowed from Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

escolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural escolares)

1. scholar; school

escolar m or f by sense (plural escolares)

1. student, schoolchild, schoolboy, schoolgirl

Borrowed from Latin excolāre.

escolar (first-person singular present escuelo, first-person singular preterite escolé, past participle escolado)

1. to go through a narrow place

• “escolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10