# escola
## Catalan
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əsˈkɔ.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [esˈkɔ.la]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔla

#### Noun

escola f (plural escoles)
* school

##### Related terms

* escolar

#### References

* ↑ “escola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

#### Further reading

* “escola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

escola
* inflection of escolar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [es̺ˈkɔlɐ]

### Noun

escola f (plural escolas)
* 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.
* academy
* college

#### Related terms

* escolar
* escoler
* mestrescola

### References

* 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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈkɔ.lɐ/, /esˈkɔ.lɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈkɔ.lɐ/, /esˈkɔ.lɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /iʃˈkɔ.lɐ/, /eʃˈkɔ.lɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /esˈkɔ.la/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃˈkɔ.lɐ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /isˈkɔ.la/
* Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
* Hyphenation: es‧co‧la

### Noun

escola f (plural escolas)
* school (institution dedicated to teaching and learning)
    Os alunos estão indo para a escola. ― The students are going to school.
* school (an art movement)
* school (the followers of a particular doctrine)
* school (department or institute dedicated to a specific subject area)
    Escola de música. ― Music school.
* method or system of teaching
* (figurative) experience

#### Derived terms

* autoescola
* escola básica
* escola primária
* escola profissional
* escola secundária
* escolágio
* escolinha (diminutive)
* jardim-escola

#### Related terms

* escolar

#### Descendants

* Kabuverdianu: skola
* → Gujarati: ઇસ્કોલ (iskol)
* → Javanese: ꦱꦼꦏꦺꦴꦭꦃ (sekolah)
* → Konkani: iśkol
    Devanagari script: इश्कोल
    Latin script: iskol
    Kannada script: ಇಶ್ಕೊಲ್
* → Malay: sekolah
** Indonesian: sekolah
*** → Ternate: skola, sikola
** → Iban: sekula
* → Tetum: eskola

### Further reading

* “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