écaille – French noun declension

French noun forms of écaille

Noun: écaille
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fécaille
Plural fécailles

Sample Sentences

  • Il le regarda longtemps, attentivement, et il comptait les écailles des poissons et les boutonnières des pourpoints, tandis, que sa pensée vagabondait à la recherche d'Emma. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]

Etymology

1. Inherited 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”).
2. Compare Italian scaglia. Doublet of écale. See: Italian Nouns 'scaglia'.

Verbs referencing "écaille"

English Nouns shell, Italian Nouns scaglia.

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