écaille

See also: écaillé

French

Etymology

From Middle French escaille, from Old French escaille (“scale”), from Frankish *skallija (“scale, shell”), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō (“scale, shell, husk”) ( > English shell), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut, part, sunder, split, divide”). Compare Italian scaglia. Doublet of écale.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.kaj/, /e.kɑj/
écaille (file)

Noun

écaille f (plural écailles)

scale (of fish, reptile etc.)
shell (of tortoise, oyster)
tortoiseshell (manufacturing material)

Derived terms

écaille de tortue

Further reading

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

Anagrams

caillée

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