escalade

Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scalae (“ladder”)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛskəˈleɪd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛskəˌleɪd/, /ˈɛskəˌlɑd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

escalade (plural escalades)

1. An act of scaling walls or fortifications

   An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops.

escalade (third-person singular simple present escalades, present participle escalading, simple past and past participle escaladed)

1. (military, dated) To scale the walls of a fortification.

• escalader

From Italian scalata.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ka.lad/

escalade f (plural escalades)

1. (sports) climbing
2. escalation

• escalader

escalade

1. first-person singular present indicative of escalader
2. third-person singular present indicative of escalader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of escalader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of escalader
5. second-person singular imperative of escalader

• “escalade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).