escala

See also: escalá and escală

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈka.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈka.la]

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin scāla.

Noun

escala f (plural escales)

1. stairs
2. ladder
3. (poker) straight
4. scale, measure

Derived terms

• escala de color
• escala reial
• escalar
• escalat

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Italian scala, in this sense taken from Byzantine Greek σκάλα (skála), itself from Latin scala.

Noun

escala f (plural escales)

1. (nautical, aeronautics) stopover

Etymology 3

Verb

escala

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

Further reading

• “escala”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “escala”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “escala” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escala” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scāla. Cognate of escada (“ladder, stairs”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkala/ [es̺ˈkɑ.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧la

Noun

escala f (plural escalas)

1. scale, measure

Occitan

Alternative forms

• eschala (“Alpin”)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [es.ˈka.lɔ]
• (Niçard) IPA^(key): [es.ˈka.la]

Noun

escala f (plural escalas)

1. ladder
2. scale