different between scholar vs scholiast

English

Etymology

From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English sc?lere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin schol?ris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school +? -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German sch?lære, sch?lere, sch?ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Doublet of escolar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)

Noun

scholar (plural scholars)

1. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
2. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
3. A learned person; a bookman.

Synonyms

• (student): pupil, student
• (specialist): expert, specialist
• (learned person): academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite

Derived terms

Related terms

• scholiast

Translations

See also

• savant

Further reading

• scholar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scholar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• chorals, lorchas, orchals

English

Etymology

From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek ?????????? (skholiast?s), from ?????????? (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek ??????? (skhólion).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk??.l?.æst/

Noun

scholiast (plural scholiasts)

1. A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
   • 1855, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume III, ch. 14:

     [N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.

   • 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book (Abacus 1982 edition), p. 8:

     [L]ike it or not, I was caught up once more in the scholiast’s game, paring popular notions of the ‘queer’ and ‘unearthly’ from notions of the ‘monstrous’.

Derived terms

• scholiastic