Noun: escá
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | escá |
| Plural f | escás |
Sample Sentences
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A escá e o ferrado son dúas medidas de madeira que se empregan pra medí-los graus. (The escá and the ferrado are two units of measurement made in wood, used for measuring the grain.) [1962, Xaquín Lorenzo, Etnografía: cultura material, Buenos Aires: Nós, page 207:]
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1286, Miguel Romaní (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). 3 vols. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións (1989, 1989, 1993), page 1131 (and one bowl of butter and two cheeses)
Nouns inflected like escá
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Hispanic Late Latin scala (“bowl”) attested in Isidore of Seville, probably from Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *skēlō (“bowl”). Cognate with German Schale and Dutch schaal (“bowl”). See: German Nouns '
Schale', Dutch Nouns '
schaal'.
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