écolier

Inherited from Old French escolier, escoler, an early borrowing from Late Latin scholāris (equivalent to école +‎ -ier), from Latin schola. Compare also the doublet scolaire, a later borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /e.kɔ.lje/

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écolier m (plural écoliers, feminine écolière)

1. (historical) (university) student (especially in the Middle Ages)
2. schoolboy

   Le moniteur demande : 1 et 1 ?
   Le premier écolier répond : 1 et 1 font 2.

   The teacher askes, "1 and 1?"
   The student answers, "1 and 1 make 2."

• chemin des écoliers

• école

• “écolier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.