escama

From Latin squāma (“scale”).

escama f (plural escames)

1. scale (of a fish)

From Latin squāma. Doublet of esquama.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈka.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [esˈka.ma]

escama f (plural escames)

1. scale (of an animal or insect)

   Synonym: escata

2. (botany) scale

   Synonym: esquama

• “escama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “escama”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “escama” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escama” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

escama

1. inflection of escamar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old Galician-Portuguese (the derived form escamar is already attested in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century), from Latin squāma (“scale”).

• IPA^(key): [esˈkɑmɐ]

escama m (plural escamas)

1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
2. peritoneum

   Synonyms: teaz, touca

• escamar

• “escama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “escama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “escama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “escama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

escama

1. inflection of escamar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Latin squāmam, accusative of squāma.

• IPA^(key): /esˈkama/

escama f (plural escamas)

1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 56v:

     […] 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.

• Spanish: escama

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧ma

From Old Galician-Portuguese escama, from Latin squāma (“scale”).

escama f (plural escamas)

1. scale (keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals)

• escamado
• escamar

escama

1. inflection of escamar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /esˈkama/ [esˈka.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧ma

From Old Spanish escama, from Latin squāma. Cognate with English squama and squame.

escama f (plural escamas)

1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
2. flake (of dead skin)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

escama

1. inflection of escamar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “escama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014