escalar

/eskaˈlaɾ/ · B2 · verb

to scale, to climb

🪜 From Latin scala, ladder: escalar = go up the ladder, like an escalator

Latin scala meant ladder or stairs. English took the same root for scale (to climb), escalator and escalate. Spanish escalar keeps all of them: climbing a wall, scaling up a problem, and the maths word scalar.

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