écale

See also: écalé and êcale

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French escale, from Frankish *skala or another Old High German source skala /scāla. Cf. Proto-Germanic *skaljō, Frankish *skallija. Ultimately of the same source as the doublet écaille (“scale”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.kal/
• Rhymes: -al

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Noun

écale f (plural écales)

1. husk
2. pod
3. shell (of nut)
4. (Louisiana) fish scale

Related terms

• escalope

Verb

écale

1. inflection of écaler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “écale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• lacée