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Etymology
[edit]13th century. Adaptation from Spanish escalera, from Late Latin scalaria, from Latin scalae. Compare the doublet esqueira.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]escaleira f (plural escaleiras)
- (usually in the plural) stairway
- ladder
- 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:
- 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
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escaleira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escaleyr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “escaleira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “escaleira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “escaleira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Leonese
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]escaleira f (plural escaleiras)
References
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