escalade

Borrowed from Middle French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”).^[1] Doublet of scalade.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛskəˈleɪd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛskəˌleɪd/, /ˈɛskəˌlɑd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

escalade (plural escalades)

1. An act of scaling walls or fortifications.

   Synonym: (obsolete) scalade

   An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops.

escalade (third-person singular simple present escalades, present participle escalading, simple past and past participle escaladed)

1. (military, dated) To scale the walls of a fortification.

• escalader

From Italian scalata.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ka.lad/

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escalade f (plural escalades)

1. (sports) climbing
2. escalation

• escalade de glace
• escalade sur glace
• escalader

escalade

1. inflection of escalader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “escalade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.