scholar

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 298 words | Copyright

scholar pupil in a school; one devoted to learning, learned person XIV; student receiving emolument from a school, etc. XVI. ME. scoler, aphetic — OF. escol(i)er (mod. écolier) — late L. scholāris, f. L. schola SCHOOL; see -AR.
Hence scholarly (-LY1) XVII, scholarship XVI.

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