escalade
See also: escaladé
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scalae (“ladder”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛskəˈleɪd/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛskəˌleɪd/, /ˈɛskəˌlɑd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun edit
escalade (plural escalades)
- An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
- An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops.
Verb edit
escalade (third-person singular simple present escalades, present participle escalading, simple past and past participle escaladed)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to scale the walls of a fortification
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French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
escalade f (plural escalades)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
escalade
- inflection of escalader:
Further reading edit
- “escalade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.