Where does “echellette” come from?
echellette (English) comes from English echelle, from French échelle, from Old French eschale, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
echellette (English): A form of echelle grating
Definitions
- A form of echelle grating
Ancestry of “echellette”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | echelle | An echelle grating |
| 2 | French | échelle | ladder; scale, proportion, size |
| 3 | Old French | eschale | shell |
| 4 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 5 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |