Etymology

downscale

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Today it means: Being downmarket, of a lower quality. Full definition →

English scale ← Middle English scale ← Latin scāla
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The story

  1. Englishdown-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*skend-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
  4. Proto-Italic*skand-slā
  5. Latinscāla
  6. Middle Englishscale
  7. Englishscale
  8. English todaydownscale

From down- + scale.

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