Scholar

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Old English scol(i)ere ‘schoolchild, student’, from late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola (see school1).

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From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere(“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola(“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολεῖον(skholeîon), from σχολή(skholḗ, “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 schȫlære, schȫlere, schȫler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Doublet of escolar.

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scholar (n.)

Old English scolere "student," from Medieval Latin scholaris, noun use of Late Latin scholaris "of a school," from Latin schola (see school (n.1)). Greek scholastes meant "one who lives at ease." The Medieval Latin word was widely borrowed (Old French escoler, French écolier, Old High German scuolari, German Schüler). The modern English word might be a Middle English reborrowing from French. Fowler points out that in British English it typically has been restricted to those who attend a school on a scholarship.