Noun: escola
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | escola |
| Plural f | escolas |
Sample Sentences
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Os alunos estão indo para a escola. (The students are going to school.)
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Escola de música. (Music school.)
Nouns inflected like escola
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Latin Nouns '
schola', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σχολή'.
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