escala

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əsˈka.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /esˈka.la/

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From Latin scāla.

escala f (plural escales)

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

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

escala f (plural escales)

1. (nautical, aeronautics) stopover

• “escala” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “escala”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

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

escala f (plural escalas)

1. scale, measure

• Rhymes: -alɐ
• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧la

Learned borrowing from Latin scāla.[1][2] Cognate of escada (“ladder, stairs”).

escala f (plural escalas)

1. scale, measure

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

escala f (plural escalas)

1. stopover

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

escala

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

• IPA^(key): /esˈkala/ [esˈka.la]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧la

From Latin scāla. Cognates include French échelle.

escala f (plural escalas)

1. ladder (a frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent)

   Synonym: escalera de mano

2. scale (an ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude)
3. (music) scale (a series of notes spanning an octave)
4. ladder, hierarchy (of a company, of the military)

   Synonym: escalafón

5. scale (the ratio of depicted distance to actual distance)
6. scale (size; scope)

   a gran escala ― on a broad scale

• escalera

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

escala f (plural escalas)

1. stopover, layover (a short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption)

escala

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

• “escala”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014