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