scala
See also: Appendix:Variations of "scala"
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin scāla (“ladder”). Doublet of scale.
Noun edit
scala (plural scalas or scalae)
- Ladder; sequence.
- (anatomy) Ladder-like structure in the cochlea of a mammal's ear.
- A machine formerly used for reducing dislocations of the humerus.
Anagrams edit
Interlingua edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scala (plural scalas)
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin scāla (“stair, staircase, ladder”).
Noun edit
scala f (plural scale)
Derived terms edit
- scala mobile (“escalator”)
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
scala
- inflection of scalare:
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
scala f (plural scale)
Further reading edit
- scala in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From *skand-slā, from scandō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskaː.la/, [ˈs̠käːɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈska.la/, [ˈskäːlä]
Noun edit
scāla f (genitive scālae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | scāla | scālae |
Genitive | scālae | scālārum |
Dative | scālae | scālīs |
Accusative | scālam | scālās |
Ablative | scālā | scālīs |
Vocative | scāla | scālae |
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: scarã
- Asturian: escalera
- Catalan: escala
- Franco-Provençal: èchiéla
- Friulian: scjale, sčhale
- Galician: escá
- Norman: éqùile (continental Normandy), étchelle (Guernsey), êtchelle (Jersey), ekyel (Sark)
- Occitan: escala
- Old French: eschele, eschale, eskele
- Piedmontese: scala
- → Portuguese: escala
- Romanian: scară, scală, escală, schelă
- Romansch: stgala, scala, stgeala
- Sardinian: iscala, issala, scaba
- Sicilian: scala
- Spanish: escala, escalera
- Tashelhit: taskala
- Venetian: scała
- → Albanian: shkallë
- → Byzantine Greek: σκάλα (skála)
- → Dutch: schaal
- → English: scala
- → Georgian: სკალა (sḳala)
- → Irish: scála
- → Middle English: scale, skale, schale
- → Russian: шкала (škala)
- → Kazakh: шкала (şkala)
- → Welsh: ysgol
Further reading edit
- “scala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scala in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- scala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to apply scaling-ladders: scalas admovere (B. C. 3. 63)
- to scale the walls by means of ladders: positis scalis muros ascendere
- to apply scaling-ladders: scalas admovere (B. C. 3. 63)
- scala in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “scala”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *skalō (“shell”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, part, divide”).
Noun edit
scala f
Descendants edit
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
scala