scol

Cornish

Alternative forms

• skol

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin schola.

Pronunciation

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Noun

scol f (plural scolyow)

1. school

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• skól, skuol, scol, scól, scuol

Etymology

From Latin schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Compare Italian scuola, Spanish escuela, Portuguese escola, and French école.

Noun

scol f

1. school

Old English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin schola. Related to Old Frisian skūle, Old High German scuola, Old Norse skóli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skoːl/

Noun

scōl f

1. school
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of On the Assumption of the Blessed Mary"

     Sum halig biscop wæs Basilius gehaten, se leornode on anre scole, and se ylca Iulianus samod.

     There was a certain bishop named Basilius, who had learned in a school together with this same Julian.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Eugenia, Virgin"

     Her sind eac þa cnihtas þe ic cydde mine digolnysse protus et iacinctus þine fostercyld mid ðam ic becom to cristes scole...

     Here are also the servants to whom I told my secret, Protus and Jaoinctus, thy foster-children, with whom I went to the school of Christ,...

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Agnes, Virgin"

     Þa ða heo gewende of scole ða awogode hi sum cniht simpronies sunu þe wæs ge-set ofer ða burh to heah-gerefan and wæs hæðen-gilda.

     When she returned from school, a youth wooed her, son of Sempronius, who was set over the city as prefect, and who was an idolator.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilius, Bishop"

     and eubolus se uðwyta þe þær yldost wæs on wysdome underfeng þonne cnapan swa swa he frymdig wæs to larlicre scole and he leornode þa swa þæt þa uðwytan his andgytes wundrodon. On þære ylcan scole wæs seo wælreowa iulianus cristen fram cyld-hade, se wearð casere siððan and awearp his ge-leafan and ge-wende to deofle. Eac þær leornode on þære ylcan scole se æðela Gregorius se ðe eft wearð biscop and fæla wundra worhta swa swa wyrd-wryteres secgað.

     And Eubolus the philosopher, who was there the foremost in wisdom, received the boy, because he was inquisitive, into his erudite school, and he learned there so well that the philosophers wondered at his understanding. In the same school was the cruel Julian, a Christian from childhood, who afterwards became Emperor, and renounced his faith, and turned to the devil. Also there learned in the same school the noble Gregory, he who afterwards became bishop, and wrought many miracles, even as historians relate.

Declension

Synonyms

• leornunghūs
• lārhūs
• sċolu

Derived terms

• leornungscōl
• scōlere
• scōlmann

Descendants

• Middle English: scole
  • English: school (see there for further descendants)
  • Geordie English: skuil, skeul
  • Scots: schuil, skuil

Romanian

Pronunciation

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Verb

scol

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of scula