escalera

From Late Latin scālāria, from Latin scālae (“stairs”).

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈleɾa/
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧le‧ra
• Rhymes: -eɾa

escalera f (plural escaleras)

1. ladder
2. staircase

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “escalera”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Late Latin scālāria, from Latin scālae (“stairs”).

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈleɾa/ [es.kaˈle.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧le‧ra

escalera f (plural escaleres)

1. ladder (climbing tool)

From Late Latin scālāria, from Latin scālae (“stairs”).

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈleɾa/

escalera f (plural escaleras)

1. stairway; steps, stairs
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18v. b.

     Nõ ſubas cõ eſcalera ſobre myo altar q̃ non ſe deſcubra to cuerpo ſobre myo altar

     Do not go up by steps unto my altar, do not let your body be exposed over my altar.

   • Idem, f. 46v. b.

     e veno en viſion dela noch q̃ vedia una eſcalera q̃ eſtaua ſobre la tierra e el cabo tenia ſobre los cielos eangeles de nr̃o ſennor ſubiã e deſcendian.

     In the night came a vision where he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to the heavens, and the angels of the Lord were ascending and descending it.

• Ladino: eskalera (Latin spelling)
• Spanish: escalera

Inherited from Old Spanish escalera, from Late Latin scālāria, from Latin scālae (“steps”). Compare English escalator, Asturian escalera, and Portuguese escaleira.

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈleɾa/ [es.kaˈle.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧le‧ra

escalera f (plural escaleras) (diminutive escalerita)

1. stairs
2. staircase, stairway
3. ladder
4. (poker) straight

• “escalera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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