The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκᾰληνός“uneven, unequal”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromscalēnus“of unequal sides”
- English todayscalene
Borrowed from Late Latin scalēnus (“of unequal sides”), from Ancient Greek σκᾰληνός (skălēnós, “uneven, unequal”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.