English
escolar
Escolar comes from Spanish escolar.
- Spanishc. 1500–presentescolar
- Englishearliest quotation 2013same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Spanishc. 1500–presentescolar
- Englishearliest quotation 2013same form
Earliest quotation: 2013, Helen Thomson, News Focus: Meat Scandal: What's On Your Plate?: “And Oceana's study revealed that 94 per cent of…”
The story
From Spanish escolar, because of a resemblance of the rings around the eyes to a scholar's spectacles.
Every English word from Spanish escolar
Today it means
noun Any member of the species Lepidocybium flavobrunneum of snake mackerels.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Spanish escolar / escolar