English
schoolmaster
Schoolmaster comes from Middle English skolemayster.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500skolemayster
- Englishearliest quotation 1994schoolmaster
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500skolemayster
- Englishearliest quotation 1994schoolmaster
Earliest quotation: 1994, Gary Goldschneider, June Ninth: The Day of Mental Insistence: “If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our…”
Ancient Greek σχολή ‘spare time, leisure’
Late Latin schola ‘school, lecture’
Proto-West Germanic *skōlu ‘school’
Old English scōl ‘place of education’
Middle English scole ‘school’
English school
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s ‘big’
Old Latin magester
Latin magister ‘chief’
Old English mǣster
Middle English maister ‘master’
English master
Every English word from Middle English skolemayster
Today it means
noun A male teacher.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English skolemayster / schoolmaster