écolâtre
French, noun/e.kɔ.latʁ/
écolâtre is spelled É-C-O-L-Â-T-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 118,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écolâtre is a French masculine noun meaning “schoolmaster of a medieval cathedral school” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ecclésiastique qui dirigeait l’école attachée à la cathédrale, et qui plus tard fut chargé d’exercer une…”.
What does écolâtre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineschoolmaster of a medieval cathedral school
- 2
derogatorymasculineteacher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ecclésiastique qui dirigeait l’école attachée à la cathédrale, et qui plus tard fut chargé d’exercer une surveillance sur les maîtres d’école du diocèse.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of écolâtre
- écolâtres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écolâtre?
- /e.kɔ.latʁ/
- /e.kɔ.lɑtʁ/
- \e.ko.lɑtʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is écolâtre in French?
écolâtre appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).