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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

  1. Greek希腊语

    scholē

    leisure闲暇

  2. Latin拉丁语

    schola

    a school, a lecture学校,一次讲课

  3. Old English古英语

    scōl

    school学校

  4. English英语

    school

    a place of teaching教学的地方

View research notes查看研究笔记

How the meaning moved意义如何移动

  1. 01 · Greek01 · 希腊语

    leisure, free time闲暇,空出来的时间

  2. 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

  3. 03 · Latin, then English03 · 拉丁语,然后是英语

    a place of teaching教学的地方

  4. 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。

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