Where does “subscale” come from?
Subscale derives from English scale, which comes from Latin scala meaning ladder, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (s)kel- meaning to cut or split.
subscale (English): A subdivision of a scale
Ancestry of “subscale”, 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 | flake |
| 3 | Latin | scāla | ladder |
| 4 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | scandō | to climb, ascend, mount |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | to jump up, ascend |