Noun: escaleira
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | escaleira |
| Plural f | escaleiras |
Sample Sentences
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prouarõ tres escaleyras de fuste et acharõnas curtas; et desi atarõnas a hũa cõ a outra et deytarõnas a hũa torre (they tried three wooden ladders but found them too short; and so they tied them together and leaned them against a tower) [c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 806:]
Nouns inflected like escaleira
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
13th century. Adaptation from Spanish escalera, from Late Latin scalaria, from Latin scalae. Compare the doublet esqueira. See: Spanish Nouns '
escalera', Latin Nouns '
scalae'.
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