école

Inherited from Middle French eschole, from Old French escole, an early borrowing or semi-learned word taken from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

• IPA^(key): /e.kɔl/

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école f (plural écoles)

1. school

• scolaire

• Haitian Creole: lekòl
• Louisiana Creole: lékòl
• → Bambara: ekɔli, lakɔli
• → Chadian Arabic: لكول (lekkōl)
• → Moore: lekolle
• → Turkish: ekol

• “école”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈekole/ [ˈe.ko.le]
• Rhymes: -ekole
• Syllabification: é‧co‧le

¡école!

1. (colloquial) exactly!