Where does “escaladare” come from?
escaladare (Romanian) comes from Romanian escaladă, from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from Italian scalare, from Italian scala, from Byzantine Greek σκάλα, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere — to jump up, ascend.
escaladare (Romanian): climbing
Definitions
- climbing
Ancestry of “escaladare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | escaladă | climbing |
| 2 | French | escalade | climbing; escalation; first-person singular... |
| 3 | Italian | scalata | scaling, climbing; climb; feminine singular of... |
| 4 | Italian | scalare | To climb or scale; To pay off a debt in... |
| 5 | Italian | scala | ladder; stair; scale |
| 6 | Byzantine Greek | σκάλα | — |
| 7 | Latin | scāla | ladder |
| 8 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 9 | Latin | scandō | to climb, ascend, mount |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | to jump up, ascend |