Words that come from Latin “scandere”

330 words across 45 languages descend from Latin scandere — including scale, scales, scan, transcendent, transcend, transcendence, escalation, scalar.

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English (159)

Italian (28)

French (21)

Portuguese (12)

Latin (9)

Old French (9)

Serbo-Croatian (8)

Spanish (7)

Hungarian (6)

Norwegian Bokmål (6)

German (6)

Russian (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Japanese (4)

Dutch (3)

Catalan (3)

Galician (3)

Irish (3)

Middle French (3)

Crimean Tatar (2)

Korean (2)

Turkish (2)

Norman (2)

Polish (1)

Czech (1)

Macedonian (1)

Venetian (1)

Aromanian (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Albanian (1)

Friulian (1)

Istriot (1)

Cebuano (1)

Greek (1)

Middle English (1)

Thai (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Romanian (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Late Latin (1)