scaffold

The story

1. Latin · derived from-falicum
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromκατα-“back; against”
3. Vulgar Latin · derived from*catafalcum“viewing stage”
4. Latin · derived fromex-“out, away”
5. Old French · derived fromes-
6. Anglo-Norman · derived fromschaffaut
7. Middle English · inherited fromscaffold
8. English todayscaffold

From Middle English scaffold, scaffalde, from Anglo-Norman schaffaut, eschaffaut, eschafal, eschaiphal, escadafaut (“platform to see a tournament”) (Modern French échafaud), from Old French es- (indicating movement away or separation) (from Latin ex- (“out, away”)) + chafaud, chafaut, chafault, caafau, caafaus, cadefaut (“scaffold for executing a criminal”), from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum (“viewing stage”), possibly from Ancient Greek κατα- (kata-, “back; against”) + Latin -falicum (from fala, phala (“wooden gallery or tower; siege tower”)).

Words from the same roots

First known use, by meaning

• since Jerome Bruner (1975), “The Ontogenesis of Speech Acts”, in Journal of Child Language, volume 2, →DOI, pages 1 seqq. To provide a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.