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Author(s): Christes, Johannes (Berlin) | R.BAU.
[German version] I. Ancient Near East See Scribes Christes, Johannes (Berlin) II. Greece [German version] A. Terminology The Greek language had no actual term for the school as educational institution. Although the English word 'school' is a loan-word from Greek, the word σχολή/ scholḗ (s. addenda) at first meant 'free time', and only came to denote what we understand as a school by way of the Latin schola . The expression didaskaleîon denoted not the institution but the building in which children were taught (at first choral singing; Antiph. 6,11; Thuc. 7,29; Pl. …