escama

From Latin squāma (“scale”).

escama f (plural escames)

1. scale (of a fish)

From Latin squāma. Doublet of esquama.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əsˈka.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /esˈka.ma/

escama f (plural escames)

1. scale (of an animal or insect)

   Synonym: escata

2. (botany) scale

   Synonym: esquama

• “escama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “escama”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “escama” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escama” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese (the derived form escamar is already attested in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century), from Latin squāma (“scale”).

• IPA^(key): [esˈkɑmɐ]

escama m (plural escamas)

1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
2. peritoneum

   Synonyms: teaz, touca

• escamar

• “escama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “escama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “escama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “escama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin squāmam, accusative of squāma.

• IPA^(key): /esˈkama/

escama f (plural escamas)

1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 56v.

     […] ca alli a una laguna q́ ſe tiene có la. en q́ a unos peces tamannos como un palmo. ¬ no an eſcama níguna.

     […] for in that place there is a pool in which there are large fish, the size of a handspan, and they have no scales whatsoever.

• Spanish: escama

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧ma

From Old Portuguese escama, from Latin squāma (“scale”).

escama f (plural escamas)

1. scale (keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals)

• escamado
• escamar

escama

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

• IPA^(key): /esˈkama/ [esˈka.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧ma

From Old Spanish escama, from Latin squāma. Cognate with English squama and squame.

escama f (plural escamas)

1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
2. flake (of dead skin)

• escamoso
• escamar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

escama

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

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