Noun: escama
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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[…] ca alli a una laguna q̃ ſe tiene cõ la. en q̃ a unos peces tamannos como un palmo. ⁊ no an eſcama nĩguna. ([…] for in that place there is a pool in which there are large fish, the size of a handspan, and they have no scales whatsoever.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 56v:]
Nouns inflected like escama
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin squāmam, accusative of squāma.
Verbs referencing "escama"
Spanish Nouns
escama.
Translations