Etymology

scaler

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Today it means: An electronic circuit that aggregates many signals into one. Full definition →

English scale ← Middle English scale ← Latin scāla
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The story

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

From scale + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.