échelle
French
noun
Definitions
- ladder
- scale, proportion, size
- (figuratively) ladder
Etymology
Inherited from Old French eschale (shell) 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
- echellette English
- echelon English
- scala English
- *scālata Latin
- scalaris Latin
- scāla Latin
- scālārium Latin
- scala Italian
- echelon Dutch, Flemish
- échelon French
- échelonner French
- шкала́ Russian
- эшелон Russian
- escala Spanish, Castilian
- escalar Spanish, Castilian
- escaleta Spanish, Castilian
- *skend- Proto-Indo-European
- escala Portuguese
- scale Middle English
- eschale Old French
- eschalope Old French
- eschele Old French
- escala Galician
- σκάλα Greek (modern)
- eskala Cebuano
- shkallë Albanian
- scjale Friulian
- escala Old Occitan
- σκάλα gkm
- eşelon Crimean Tatar
- şkala Crimean Tatar
- yscawl Middle Welsh