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English
Noun
scalae
- plural of scala
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Plural of scāla.
Pronunciation
Noun
scālae f pl (genitive scālārum); first declension
- (plural only) (flight of) stairs; staircase
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Noun
scālae
- inflection of scāla:
- genitive/dative singular
- nominative/vocative plural
References
- “scalae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “scalae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “scalae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin