escolar

From Spanish escolar, because of a resemblance of the rings around the eyes to a scholar's spectacles. Doublet of scholar.

Lepidocybium flavobrunneum

escolar (plural escolars)

1. Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, one of the snake mackerels.
   • 2013 February 20, Helen Thomson, “News Focus: Meat Scandal: What's On Your Plate?”, in New Scientist, volume 217, number 2904, page 7:

     And Oceana's study revealed that 94 per cent of “white tuna” was not tuna at all, but escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum). Consumption of more than 100 grams or so of this species causes severe diarrhoea.

2. Any fish of species Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish.
3. Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels).

• (perciform fish): snake mackerel, walu or waloo, butterfish, super white tuna, white tuna
• (perciform fish): (derogatory) ex-lax fish, laxative of the sea

• “escolar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “escolar”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• escolar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gempylidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Gempylidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Alcoser, Caleros, Calrose, coalers, oracles, recoals, solacer

Borrowed from Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.kuˈlar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.koˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [es.koˈlaɾ]

escolar m or f by sense (plural escolars)

1. student; specifically someone who goes to school

• escolar negre

escolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural escolars)

1. scholarly; (relational) school

• escolaritzar

• escola

From es- +‎ colar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.kuˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.koˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [es.koˈlaɾ]

escolar (first-person singular present escolo, first-person singular preterite escolí, past participle escolat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to empty, to drain

   Synonyms: buidar, escórrer

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to pour out, run out, flow out
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun, figurative) (of time) to pass by, expire
4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to leak out; (of a person or animal) to bleed (out)

• escolament

• “escolar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “escolar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “escolar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escolar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escolar, from Latin scholaris.

• IPA^(key): [eskoˈlaɾ]

escolar m or f (plural escolares)

1. school

escolar m (plural escolares)

1. student

• “escolar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “escolar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “escolar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “escolar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escolar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “escolar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

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escolar m (feminine singular escolara, masculine plural escolars, feminine plural escolaras)

1. school

From Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

• Hyphenation: es‧co‧lar

escolar m or f (plural escolares)

1. (relational) scholar; school

   calendário escolar ― school calendar

   material escolar ― school supplies

• escola

• “escolar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

• IPA^(key): /eskoˈlaɾ/ [es.koˈlaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧co‧lar

Borrowed from Late Latin scholāris, from Latin schola.

escolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural escolares)

1. scholar; school

escolar m or f by sense (plural escolares)

1. student, schoolchild, schoolboy, schoolgirl

Borrowed from Latin excolāre.

escolar (first-person singular present escuelo, first-person singular preterite escolé, past participle escolado)

1. to go through a narrow place

• “escolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014