Where does “largescale” come from?
Largescale combines large, from Middle English large and Latin larga meaning "wide," with scale, from Middle English scale, Latin scala meaning "ladder," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European skend- and (s)kel-.
largescale (English): Having large scales
Ancestry of “largescale”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | scale | A ladder; a series of steps; a means of... |
| 2 | Middle English | scale | — |
| 3 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 4 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |