ascla

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin ascla, from Latin assula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈas.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈas.kla]

Noun

ascla f (plural ascles)

1. flake, chip (a loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything)

Derived terms

• asclar

Further reading

• “ascla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ascla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ascla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ascla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

ascla

1. inflection of asclar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

From earlier astla, from Classical assula. Attested in Cassiodorus.

Noun

ascla f (genitive asclae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. Alternative form of assula (“splinter”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ascla	asclae
Genitive	asclae	asclārum
Dative	asclae	asclīs
Accusative	asclam	asclās
Ablative	asclā	asclīs
Vocative	ascla	asclae

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ashclji, ashcljii, ashclje, iashcljã
  • Romanian: așchie
• Dalmatian:
  • jasca
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ascra, ascia
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: as-cia
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: âclya

    Bressan: aille

    Valdôtain: ôclya, asclya

• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: ascla
  • Occitan: ascla
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: ascla

    Belsetán: ixascla (From ex- + ascla)

    Ribagorçan: asclla

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: acha
    • Galician: acha
    • Portuguese: acha
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: ashkë, ashër, ashkël (perhaps)
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *asklọd
    • Breton: askleud
    • Welsh: asglod
      • ⇒ Welsh: sglodion, ysglodion