Noun: escada
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | escada |
| Plural f | escadas |
Sample Sentences
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Et a moller tornou moyto agina et buscou hũa escaada et Desposome da forqua. (And the woman returned very soon, searched for a ladder, and took me from the gallows) [1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: CSIC, page 4:]
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1385, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 460 ([house] which we sell to you in width and throughout, with all of its stones, and walls, and stairs, and exits, and belongings and rights that belong to it and that must belong to it, with its waters, from the sky till the ground)
Nouns inflected like escada
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
14th century. From older escaada, from Old Galician-Portuguese *escaada, from Vulgar Latin *scālata, from Latin scāla (“stair, staircase, ladder”). See: Latin Nouns '
scāla'.
Translations