escala
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- ladder a frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent
- scale an ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude
- (music) scale a series of notes spanning an octave
- ladder, hierarchy of a company, of the military
- scale the ratio of depicted distance to actual distance
- scale size, scope
Etymology
Inherited from Latin scāla (ladder, stair, staircase, scale).
Origin
Latin
scāla
Gloss
ladder, stair, staircase, scale
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- echelle English
- scala English
- *scālata Latin
- scalaris Latin
- scāla Latin
- scālārium Latin
- scala Italian
- échelle French
- échelon French
- шкала́ Russian
- desescalar Spanish, Castilian
- escalante Spanish, Castilian
- escalar Spanish, Castilian
- escaleta Spanish, Castilian
- *skend- Proto-Indo-European
- escala Portuguese
- scale Middle English
- eschale Old French
- eschele Old French
- escala Galician
- σκάλα Greek (modern)
- eskala Cebuano
- shkallë Albanian
- scjale Friulian
- escala Old Occitan
- σκάλα gkm
- şkala Crimean Tatar
- yscawl Middle Welsh