escoler

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

• IPA^(key): /eskɔˈlɛɾ/

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

• escolería

• escola
• escolante

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

• escolier

Borrowed from Late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola.

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

1. school pupil
   • c. 1250, Rutebeuf, De l'Estat du Monde:

     Briefment, tuit clerc, fors escoler,
     Vuelent Avarisce acoler.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Middle French: escolier
  • French: écolier
• → Galician: escoler
• → Middle Dutch: scholier
  • Dutch: scholier
    • Afrikaans: skolier
    • Negerhollands: scholier