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escalier.

step, stair

8 characters3 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɛs.ka.lje/
  1. step, stair

    masculine
  2. staircase

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French escallier, borrowed (through written form) from Occitan escalier, from Late Latin scālārium (attested in some inscriptions), neuter nominalization of *scālārius (“pertaining to a flight of stairs”), or from scālāris, from Latin scāla (“ladder”). Replaced the older French degrés and montée in this sense. Doublet of échalier.

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