# scala
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

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.

#### Related terms

* scala naturae

### Anagrams

* AACSL, Calas, Casal, calas, casal

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈska.la/

### Noun

scala (plural scalas)
* staircase

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈska.la/
* Rhymes: -ala
* Hyphenation: scà‧la

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

scala f (plural scale)
* ladder
* stair
* 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
* inflection of scalare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

scala f (plural scale)
* (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: /ˈskaː.la/, [ˈs̠käːɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈska.la/, [ˈskäːlä]

### Noun

scāla f (genitive scālae); first declension
* ladder
* (plural only) stairs (flight of steps)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### 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, 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, 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
* shell
* scale (dish of balance)
* bowl

#### Descendants

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

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈst͡sa.la/
* Rhymes: -ala
* Syllabification: sca‧la

### Verb

scala
* third-person singular present of scalać