scaglia

Borrowed from Italian scaglia (“a scale, a shell, a chip of marble”). Doublet of scale and shell.

scaglia (uncountable)

1. A reddish variety of limestone.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskaʎ.ʎa/
• Rhymes: -aʎʎa
• Hyphenation: scà‧glia

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 French écaille, Sicilian scagghia.

scaglia f (plural scaglie)

1. (zoology) scale (keratin piece covering the skin of reptiles and fishes)

   Synonym: squama

2. flake, sliver
3. splinter

   Synonym: scheggia

• scagliola

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

scaglia

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