escaleira

13th century. Adaptation from Spanish escalera, from Late Latin scalaria, from Latin scalae. Compare the doublet esqueira.

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈlejɾa̝/

escaleira f (plural escaleiras)

1. (usually in the plural) stairway
2. 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

• escada
• esqueira

• “escaleira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “escaleyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

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escaleira f (plural escaleiras)

1. ladder

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