"escalier" meaning in All languages combined

See escalier on Wiktionary

Noun [French]

IPA: /ɛs.ka.lje/ Audio: Fr-escalier.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-escalier.wav [Switzerland, Valais], LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-escalier.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav [France, Lyon], LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-escalier.wav [France] (note: Somain) Forms: escaliers [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|escallier|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French escallier, {{inh+|fr|frm|escallier}} Inherited from Middle French escallier, {{bor|fr|oc|escalier}} Occitan escalier, {{der|fr|la-lat|scālārium}} Late Latin scālārium, {{nom|la||*scālārius|nocap=1|nocat=1|nomg=n|t=pertaining to a flight of stairs}} neuter nominalization of *scālārius (“pertaining to a flight of stairs”), {{der|fr|la|scāla||ladder}} Latin scāla (“ladder”), {{dbt|fr|échalier}} Doublet of échalier Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} escalier m (plural escaliers)
  1. step, stair Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-escalier-fr-noun-mf9pTIdV
  2. staircase Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-escalier-fr-noun-vxMj1NlR Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cage d'escalier, escalier mécanique, esprit de l'escalier, escalier roulant

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cage d'escalier"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "escalier mécanique"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "esprit de l'escalier"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "escalier roulant"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Haitian Creole",
      "lang_code": "ht",
      "word": "eskalye"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
      "expansion": "I",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "escallier",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French escallier",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "escallier"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle French escallier",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "oc",
        "3": "escalier"
      },
      "expansion": "Occitan escalier",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la-lat",
        "3": "scālārium"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin scālārium",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "",
        "3": "*scālārius",
        "nocap": "1",
        "nocat": "1",
        "nomg": "n",
        "t": "pertaining to a flight of stairs"
      },
      "expansion": "neuter nominalization of *scālārius (“pertaining to a flight of stairs”)",
      "name": "nom"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "scāla",
        "4": "",
        "5": "ladder"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin scāla (“ladder”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "échalier"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of échalier",
      "name": "dbt"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "escaliers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "escalier m (plural escaliers)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "step, stair"
      ],
      "id": "en-escalier-fr-noun-mf9pTIdV",
      "links": [
        [
          "step",
          "step"
        ],
        [
          "stair",
          "stair"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 85",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "staircase"
      ],
      "id": "en-escalier-fr-noun-vxMj1NlR",
      "links": [
        [
          "staircase",
          "staircase"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛs.ka.lje/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-escalier.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/Fr-escalier.ogg/Fr-escalier.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Fr-escalier.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Switzerland",
        "Valais"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Vosges"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Vosges"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2e/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2e/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Lyon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/18/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "note": "Somain",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/18/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "escalier"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "French 3-syllable words",
    "French countable nouns",
    "French doublets",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French lemmas",
    "French masculine nouns",
    "French nouns",
    "French terms borrowed from Occitan",
    "French terms derived from Late Latin",
    "French terms derived from Latin",
    "French terms derived from Middle French",
    "French terms derived from Occitan",
    "French terms inherited from Middle French",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "cage d'escalier"
    },
    {
      "word": "escalier mécanique"
    },
    {
      "word": "esprit de l'escalier"
    },
    {
      "word": "escalier roulant"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Haitian Creole",
      "lang_code": "ht",
      "word": "eskalye"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
      "expansion": "I",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "escallier",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French escallier",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "escallier"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle French escallier",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "oc",
        "3": "escalier"
      },
      "expansion": "Occitan escalier",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la-lat",
        "3": "scālārium"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin scālārium",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "",
        "3": "*scālārius",
        "nocap": "1",
        "nocat": "1",
        "nomg": "n",
        "t": "pertaining to a flight of stairs"
      },
      "expansion": "neuter nominalization of *scālārius (“pertaining to a flight of stairs”)",
      "name": "nom"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "scāla",
        "4": "",
        "5": "ladder"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin scāla (“ladder”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "échalier"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of échalier",
      "name": "dbt"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "escaliers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "escalier m (plural escaliers)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "step, stair"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "step",
          "step"
        ],
        [
          "stair",
          "stair"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "staircase"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "staircase",
          "staircase"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛs.ka.lje/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-escalier.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/Fr-escalier.ogg/Fr-escalier.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Fr-escalier.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Switzerland",
        "Valais"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Vosges"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Vosges"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2e/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2e/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Lyon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-escalier.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/18/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-escalier.wav.mp3",
      "note": "Somain",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/18/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-escalier.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-escalier.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "escalier"
}

Download raw JSONL data for escalier meaning in All languages combined (5.2kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (d9fa233 and 9e92f4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.