schola

From Latin schola. Doublet of school and shul.

schola (plural scholas or scholae)

1. Originally, a musical school attached to a monastery or church. Also known as a schola cantorum.
2. Today, a group of musicians, particularly one which specializes in liturgical music.

• cholas

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

schola

Wikipedia ^la

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskʰo.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.la/,

schola f (genitive scholae); first declension

1. Leisure time given to learning; schooltime, classtime.
   • c. ad 65, Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, CVI.

     non vitæ sed scholæ discimvs

     We learn not for life but for schooltime.

2. A school; a place for learning or instruction.
   • 1804 Jun 12, Oberdeutsche Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung, No. 70, p. 1119

     non scholæ sed vitæ discendvm est

     We must learn not for school but for life.

3. A student body; the disciples of a teacher.
4. A school (especially a secondary school), a sect; body of followers of a teacher or system, such as those of a philosopher or the Praetorian guard

   Near-synonym: lūdus

5. An art gallery.

First-declension noun.

• “schola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “schola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• schola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a school for higher education: schola
    
  • to go to a school: scholam frequentare
    
  • to exert oneself in the schools: desudare in scholae umbra or umbraculis
    
  • a sect, school of thought: schola, disciplina, familia; secta
    
  • to give lectures: scholas habere, explicare (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • to attend lectures: scholis interesse
    
• “schola”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

schola

Wikipedia ^pl

Learned borrowing from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of szkoła.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: scho‧la

schola f (diminutive scholka)

1. (education, music) schola (musical school attached to a monastery or church)

• schola in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin schola.

schola f (plural scholas)

1. Obsolete spelling of escola.