escoler

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eskɔˈlɛɾ/

Noun

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

Derived terms

• escolería

Related terms

• escola
• escolante

References

• 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: ILG
• 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

Old French

Alternative forms

• escolier

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola.

Noun

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)

Declension

  Declension of escoler  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	Subject	escolers	escolere
	Oblique	escoler	escolere
Plural	Subject	escoler	escoleres
	Oblique	escolers	escoleres

Descendants

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