scoil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish scol (compare Scottish Gaelic sgoil), from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sˠkɛlʲ/

Noun

scoil f (genitive singular scoile, nominative plural scoileanna or scolta)

  1. school (educational institution)
  2. (literary) school (followers of a particular doctrine)
  3. (deliberative) assembly, body
  4. shoal

Declension
Declension of scoil

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scoil scoileanna
Vocative a scoil a scoileanna
Genitive scoile scoileanna
Dative scoil scoileanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an scoil na scoileanna
Genitive na scoile na scoileanna
Dative leis an scoil

don scoil

 leis na scoileanna

Derived terms
  • ardscoil (“high school, secondary school”)
  • buachaill scoile (“schoolboy”)
  • bunscoil (“primary school, elementary school”)
  • cailín scoile (“schoolgirl”)
  • ceolscoil, scoil cheoil (“music school”)
  • daonscoil (“folk school”)
  • gairmscoil (“vocational school”)
  • leabhar scoile (“school-book”)
  • máistreás scoile f (“schoolmistress”)
  • mála scoile (“school-bag”)
  • meánscoil (“secondary school, academy, college”)
  • naíscoil (“(Irish-language) nursery school”)
  • ollscoil (“university”)
  • páiste scoile (“school-child”)
  • pobalscoil (“community school”)
  • scoil cheartúcháin (“reformatory”)
  • scoil chónaithe (“boarding school”)
  • scoil chuimsitheach (“comprehensive school”)
  • scoil Domhnaigh (“Sunday school”)
  • scoil ghearr (“hedge-school”)
  • scoil ghramadaí (“grammar school”)
  • scoil lae (“day-school”)
  • scoil naíonán (“infant school”)
  • scoil oíche (“night-school”)
  • scoil saothair (“industrial school”)
  • scoil chois claí
  • scoil ghairid
  • scoil scairte

Further reading
  • "scoil" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 scol” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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