ascla

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin ascla, from Latin assula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaskla/
• Syllabification: as‧cla
• Rhymes: -askla

Noun

ascla f

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

Further reading

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ascla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “ascla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “ascla”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	ascla	asclae
genitive	asclae	asclārum
dative	asclae	asclīs
accusative	asclam	asclās
ablative	asclā	asclīs
vocative	ascla	asclae

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ascra, ascia
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: ashclji, ashcljii, ashclje, iashcljã
  • Romanian: așchie
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: jasca
  • Italian: asca (regional)
  • Sicilian: asca
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: as-cia
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: âclya

    Bressan: aille

    Valdôtain: ôclya, asclya

• Southern Gallo-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, ⇒ sglodyn