Where does “escala” come from?
escala (Catalan) comes from Italian scala, from Byzantine Greek σκάλα, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
escala (Catalan): stairs; ladder; straight
Ancestry of “escala”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | scala | ladder; stair; scale |
| 2 | Byzantine Greek | σκάλα | — |
| 3 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 4 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |