Where does “scala” come from?
Scala comes from Latin scala, traced through Latin scadla and scandere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European skend-, a root expressing the action of climbing or ascending.
scala (English): Ladder; sequence; Ladder-like structure in the...
Definitions
- Ladder; sequence; Ladder-like structure in the...
Ancestry of “scala”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | scala | ladder; stairs |
| 2 | Latin | scadla | — |
| 3 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 4 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |