échelle

Inherited from Old French eschale, inherited from Latin scāla. Doublet of escale.

• IPA^(key): /e.ʃɛl/

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échelle f (plural échelles)

1. ladder
2. scale, proportion, size
3. (figuratively) ladder
   • 2000, François Icher, La société médiévale, →ISBN, page 134:

     Tout en bas de l’échelle de la corporation jurée, il y a d’abord l’apprenti.

     At the bottom of the corporation ladder, there is the apprentice.

4. (music) scale

   Synonym: gamme

• “échelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.