Kilo Lingo

la

feminine

/esˈkala/

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Translation

scale; ladder; stopover

Word origin

From Latin scala ('ladder, staircase, flight of steps'), from scandere ('to climb').

Origin
Latin
Root
scala
English cognates
scale, escalate

Grammar

Genderfeminine
Pluralescalas

Examples

.

The map is at a scale of one to one hundred thousand.

Madrid.

The flight has a stopover in Madrid.

.

He climbed up the ladder to the roof.

.

We measure the pain on a scale from one to ten.

gran .

The company produces on a large scale.

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This word is part of lesson 53.