escola

Inherited from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”). First attested in the 14th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈkɔ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈkɔ.la]

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• Rhymes: -ɔla

escola f (plural escoles)

1. school

• escolar

• “escola”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “escola” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

escola

1. inflection of escolar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old Galician-Portuguese escola (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”).

• IPA^(key): /esˈkɔla/ [ɪs̺ˈkɔ.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Hyphenation: es‧co‧la

escola f (plural escolas)

1. school
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Afonso:
     E como està o afillado?
     Christobo:
     Esse jà quer ir a Escola,
     pero porque non tèn sayo
     està decote na Eyra
     para escorrentar o Gando.
     Afonso:
     Pois esso non e ben feyto,
     porque e vivo coma vn allo,
     fino coma vnha pimenta,
     e se quer ser Lecenceado
     an que venda os bois do jugo
     lle teño de dar estado.

     Afonso:
     How is doing my godchild?
     Christobo:
     He already want to go to school,
     but since he has no robe
     is all the time in the field
     to drive away the livestock.
     Afonso:
     But this is not correct,
     because he is smart as a whip,
     acute as a pepper grain,
     and if he wants to be a bachelor,
     even if I have to sell the yoke oxen,
     I ought to give him estate.

2. academy
3. college

• escolar
• escoler
• mestrescola

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escola”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escola”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escola”, 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), “escola”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escola”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese escola, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”). The Portuguese form may indicate a semi-learned influence on the phonetic aspects of the word.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈkɔ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
• Hyphenation: es‧co‧la

escola f (plural escolas)

1. school (institution dedicated to teaching and learning)

   Os alunos estão indo para a escola. ― The students are going to school.

2. school (an art movement)
3. school (the followers of a particular doctrine)
4. school, college (department or institute dedicated to a specific subject area)

   Escola de música. ― Music school.

5. method or system of teaching
6. (figurative) experience

• Kabuverdianu: skola
• → Gujarati: ઇસ્કોલ (iskol)
• → Javanese: ꦱꦼꦏꦺꦴꦭꦃ (sekolah)
• → Konkani: iśkol

  Devanagari script: इश्कोल

  Latin script: iskol

  Kannada script: ಇಶ್ಕೊಲ್

• → Malay: sekolah, sek (abbreviation)
  • > Indonesian: sekolah, sek (inherited)
    • → Ternate: skola, sikola
  • → Iban: sekula
• → Sinhalese: ස්කෝලය (skōlaya)
• → Tetum: eskola

• “escola”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “escola”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025