Exhibit展品
school
/skuːl/
How did leisure become a place with bells?闲暇怎样变成了一个会打铃的地方?
Today此刻
A place where people are taught, and the teaching that happens there.教人的地方,以及在那里发生的教学。
Borrowed whole整词借入
How it arrived它如何到来
Borrowed whole. Greek scholē is not a compound to be sliced in English. What changed is the meaning: from leisure, to study, to the institution.整词借入。希腊语 scholē 不是一个能在英语里切开的复合词。变的是意思:从闲暇,到研习,到机构。
Travel through time穿过时间
Greek希腊语
scholē
leisure闲暇
Latin拉丁语
schola
a school, a lecture学校,一次讲课
Old English古英语
scōl
school学校
English英语
school
a place of teaching教学的地方
How the meaning moved意义如何移动
01 · Greek01 · 希腊语
leisure, free time闲暇,空出来的时间
02 · Greek and Latin02 · 希腊语与拉丁语
learned talk, a lecture有学问的谈话,一次讲课
03 · Latin, then English03 · 拉丁语,然后是英语
a place of teaching教学的地方
04 · a later English return to the group04 · 较晚的英语,回到那一群人
a school of thought一个思想的学派
Story故事
Time that was free, then used曾经空着、后来被用上的时间
Greek scholē means leisure, free time. The educational sense grows from what leisure made possible: discussion, lectures, the company of a teacher. Latin schola already carries the school. Old English scōl takes it from Latin. The building and the bell are much later than the leisure.
This is a meaning that moved, and the movement is the exhibit. A word for time not claimed by work becomes a word for the institution that claims the young. English then adds a further sense that quietly returns to the Greek idea: a school of thought, people who share a method because they had time to form one.
The path through Rome does not own this word. Latin carried a Greek noun. The honest turn is to say so, and then walk on to the grove where Plato taught.
希腊语 scholē 是闲暇,空出来的时间。教育的意思从闲暇使之成为可能的事里长出来:讨论、讲课、与教师为伴。拉丁语 schola 已经带着学校。古英语 scōl 从拉丁语接过它。房子和铃声比闲暇晚得多。
这是一个移动过的意思,移动本身就是展品。一个表示不被工作占用的时间的词,变成一个占用年轻人的机构的词。英语后来又加了一层,悄悄回到希腊语的想法:一个思想的学派,一群因为有时间才形成一种方法的人。
穿过罗马的那条路并不拥有这个词。拉丁语运来的是一个希腊语名词。诚实的转弯是把这一点说出来,然后继续走到柏拉图教书的那片树林。
Keep wandering继续漫游
Research notes研究笔记
Confidence · High把握 · 高
The outline is the ordinary account in historical dictionaries.轮廓与历史词典里的通行说法一致。
Sources出处
An outline for the visitor, not a critical edition.给访客的纲要,不是校勘本。