scala

See also: Appendix:Variations of "scala"

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scāla (“ladder”). Doublet of scale.

Noun

scala (plural scalas or scalae)

1. Ladder; sequence.
2. (anatomy) Ladder-like structure in the cochlea of a mammal's ear.
3. A machine formerly used for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

Related terms

• scala naturae

Anagrams

• AACSL, Calas, Casal, calas, casal

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈska.la/

Noun

scala (plural scalas)

1. staircase

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈska.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: scà‧la

Etymology 1

From Latin scāla (“stair, staircase, ladder”).

Noun

scala f (plural scale)

1. ladder
2. stair
3. scale

Derived terms

• scala mobile (“escalator”)

Descendants

• → Catalan: escala
• → German: Skala
  • → Polish: skala
• → French: escale
  • → Romanian: escală
• → Portuguese: escala
• → Romanian: scală
• → Spanish: escala
• → Turkish: iskele
  • → Albanian: skelë
  • → Serbo-Croatian: skela
    • → Romanian: schelă

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

scala

1. inflection of scalare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Noun

scala f (plural scale)

1. (card games, poker) straight

Further reading

• scala in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• lasca

Latin

Etymology

From *skand-slā, from scandō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskaː.la/, [ˈs̠käːɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.la/, [ˈskäːlä]

Noun

scāla f (genitive scālae); first declension

1. ladder
2. (plural only) stairs (flight of steps)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scāla	scālae
genitive	scālae	scālārum
dative	scālae	scālīs
accusative	scālam	scālās
ablative	scālā	scālīs
vocative	scāla	scālae

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: iscala, issala, scaba
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: scarã
  • Romanian: scară
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: scala
    • → Catalan: escala
    • → German: Skala
      • → Polish: skala
    • → French: escale
      • → Romanian: escală
    • → Portuguese: escala
    • → Romanian: scală
    • → Spanish: escala
    • → Turkish: iskele
      • → Albanian: skelë
      • → Serbo-Croatian: skela
        • → Romanian: schelă
  • ⇒ Italian: scalo
  • Sicilian: scala
  • Venetan: scała
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: scjale, sčhale
  • Romansch: stgala, scala, stgeala
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: scala
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Northern:
    • Franco-Provençal: èchiéla
    • Old French: eschele, eschale, eskele
      • Bourguignon: échaule
      • French: échelle
      • Lorrain: schaule
      • Norman: équielle, éqùile (continental Normandy), étchelle (Guernsey), êtchelle (Jersey), ekyel (Sark)
      • Picard: ékèle (Somme), ékièle (Artois and Eastern Picard)
      • Walloon: schåle
  • Southern:
    • Catalan: escala
    • Occitan: escala
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Spanish: escala
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *scālata
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: escaada
    • Galician: escada
    • Portuguese: escada

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: shkallë
• → Ancient Greek: σκάλα (skála)
  • Greek: σκάλα (skála)
  • → Macedonian: скала (skala)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܣܩܠܐ (sqālā)
• → Dutch: schaal
• → English: scala
• → Galician: escala
• → Georgian: სკალა (sḳala)
• → Irish: scála
• → Middle English: scale, skale, schale
  • English: scale
    • → Japanese: スケール (sukēru)
• → Portuguese: escala
• → Russian: шкала (škala)
  • → Kazakh: шкала (şkala)
• → Tashelhit: taskala
• → Welsh: ysgol

Further reading

• “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
    
• 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
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “scala”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skalō (“shell”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, part, divide”).

Noun

scala f

1. shell
2. scale (dish of balance)
3. bowl

Descendants

• Middle High German: schāle
  • Bavarian: Schoin
  • German: Schale
    • → Serbo-Croatian: šolja
  • Yiddish: שאָל (shol)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈst͡sa.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: sca‧la

Verb

scala

1. third-person singular present of scalać