scalaris
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /skaːˈlaː.ris/, [s̠käːˈɫ̪äːrɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skaˈla.ris/, [skäˈläːris]
Adjective
scālāris (neuter scālāre); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of, pertaining to or resembling a flight of stairs, or a ladder
- (mathematics) scalar
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | scālāris | scālāre | scālārēs | scālāria | |
| Genitive | scālāris | scālārium | |||
| Dative | scālārī | scālāribus | |||
| Accusative | scālārem | scālāre | scālārēs scālārīs |
scālāria | |
| Ablative | scālārī | scālāribus | |||
| Vocative | scālāris | scālāre | scālārēs | scālāria | |
Related terms
Descendants
- Aragonese: escalera
- Asturian: escalera
- Catalan: escalar
- → English: scalar
- → French: scalaire
- → Romanian: scalar
- Galician: esqueira, esqueiro
- Italian: scalare
- Occitan: escalier
- → French: escalier
- Spanish: escalera
- Spanish: escalar
References
- “scalaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scalaris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.