лествица

Derived from Proto-Slavic *lěstva (“scaling”) + -ица (-ica).

ле́ствица • (léstvica) f (obsolete)

1. scale, gradation

   Synonym: (standard term) ска́ла (skála)

2. stairs (in fortress, monastery, tower), upward path

• ле́стница (léstnica) (Russian borrowing)

• Nayden Gerov (1899) “лѣ́ствица”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 33
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лествица”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 372
• “лѣствица”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025

• лѣ́ствица (lě́stvica) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Derived from Old Church Slavonic лѣствица (lěstvica), from Proto-Slavic *lěstva, from *lězti (“to climb”) + *-tv-. Doublet of ле́стница (léstnica).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlʲestvʲɪt͡sə]

ле́ствица • (léstvica) f inan (genitive ле́ствицы, nominative plural ле́ствицы, genitive plural ле́ствиц, relational adjective ле́ствичный, diminutive ле́сенка)

1. (obsolete, Christianity) synonym of ле́стница (léstnica)

• → Kildin Sami: лествец (ljestvjec)

• ље̏ствица (Ijekavian)

• IPA^(key): /lêstʋit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: лес‧тви‧ца

ле̏ствица f (Latin spelling lȅstvica)

1. (usually in the plural, diminutive) ladder
2. scale, gamut