scala

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

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.

• scala naturae

• AACSL, Calas, Casal, calas, casal

• IPA^(key): /ˈska.la/

scala (plural scalas)

1. staircase

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

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

scala f (plural scale)

1. ladder
2. stair
3. scale

• scala mobile (“escalator”)

• → German: Skala
  • → Polish: skala
• → French: escale
• → Turkish: iskele
  • → Albanian: skelë
  • → Serbo-Croatian: skela

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

scala

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

scala f (plural scale)

1. (card games, poker) straight

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

• lasca

From *skand-slā, from scandō.

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

scāla f (genitive scālae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• “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
• “scala”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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

scala f

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

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

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

scala

1. third-person singular present of scalać