escoler

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Galician

Etymology

From Old French escoler,[1] from Latin scholaris, with the semantic evolution: "having knowledge" > "practitioner" > "having supernatural powers".

Pronunciation

Noun

escoler m (plural escoleres)

  1. (folklore) wizard, sorcerer
    Synonyms: feiticeiro, mago
    • 1846, anonymous author, Carta de Cristobo a seu tío don Alifonso de Santiago:
      os demos tamén berraban chamando por escoleres e por meigas de máis fama qu'os arrigasen da Cruña e os lovasen para Francia
      also the demons were shouting, calling for more famous sorcerers and witches who could uproot them from a Coruña and take them to France
  2. (folklore) supernatural being who causes storms and controls the weather
    Synonym: nubeiro

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “escuela”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola.

Noun

escoler oblique singularm (oblique plural escolers, nominative singular escolers, nominative plural escoler)

  1. school pupil

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