échelle
See also: echelle
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French eschale, inherited from Latin scāla. Doublet of escale.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
échelle f (plural échelles)
- ladder
- scale, proportion, size
- (figuratively) ladder
- 2000, François Icher, La société médiévale, →ISBN, page 134:
- Tout en bas de l’échelle de la corporation jurée, il y a d’abord l’apprenti.
- At the bottom of the corporation ladder, there is the apprentice.
- (music) scale
- Synonym: gamme
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “échelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.