scaffold
pronunciation
How to pronounce scaffold in British English:
UK [ˈskæfəʊld]
How to pronounce scaffold in American English:
US [ˈskæfoʊld]
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- Noun:
- a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
- a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
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- Verb:
- provide with a scaffold for support
Word Origin
- scaffold
- scaffold: [14] Historically, scaffold and catafalque [17] ‘coffin-stand’ are virtually the same word. Catafalque comes via French catafalque and Italian catafalco from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum, a word of uncertain origin. Combination with the prefix ex- produced *excatafalcum, which passed into English via Old French eschaffaut and Anglo-Norman *scaffaut.The word originally denoted any sort of platform, and did not narrow down to ‘platform for executions’ until the 16th century. The derivative scaffolding, a term which originally alluded to the platforms set up around a building rather than to poles supporting them, also dates from the 14th century.=> catafalque
- scaffold (n.)
- mid-14c., "wooden framework used in building, etc., temporary structure for workmen to make walls," a shortening of an Old North French variant of Old French eschafaut "scaffold" (Modern French échafaud), probably altered (by influence of eschace "a prop, support") from chaffaut, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum (see catafalque). Meaning "platform for a hanging" is from 1550s. Dutch schavot, German Schafott, Danish skafot are from French. As a verb from 1540s.
Example
- 1. He thinks engineers could modify and process the material into an implantable or injectable scaffold .
- 2. Once the scaffold has been transplanted , the body takes over and repopulates it with cells .
- 3. A non-biodegradable scaffold , like the one andemarian has , would not grow with the child .
- 4. The first thing she told him was his scaffold wasn 't level ......
- 5. The scaffold and bioreactor were then shipped to stockholm , where the solution containing the patient 's stem cells was added .