ischora

From Latin schola, borrowed from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ), from Proto-Hellenic *skʰolā́, from Proto-Indo-European *sǵʰh₃leh₂, derived from the root *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”).

• IPA^(key): /ixˈxora/

ischora f (plural ischori)

1. school
   • 2010 September 29, Ignazio Sanna, “Li sigurànzi di Don Fedele [Don Fedele's guarantees]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎:

     Augusto abìa dassaddu l’ischóra pa’ aggiuddà lu babbu – un “paddronaréddu” pròprietariu d’un òtòcarru abànzu di ghèrra

     Augusto had dropped school in order to help his father, a small proprietor, owner of a truck left over from the war

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes