scandale

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum. Doublet of esclandre.

• IPA^(key): /skɑ̃.dal/

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scandale m (plural scandales)

1. scandal

• faire scandale

• scandaleux
• scandaliser

• → Belarusian: сканда́л (skandál)
• → Bulgarian: сканда́л (skandál)
• → Danish: skandale
• → English: scandal
  • → Japanese: スキャンダル (sukyandaru)
  • → Korean: 스캔들 (seukaendeul)
  • → Malay: skandal
• → German: Skandal, Skandalon n
  • → Czech: skandál
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: скандал

    Latin script: skandal

  • → Slovak: škandál
• → Norwegian Bokmål: skandale
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: skandale
• → Persian: اسکاندال (eskândâl)
• → Polish: skandal
• → Romanian: scandal
• → Russian: сканда́л (skandál)
• → Turkish: skandal
• → Ukrainian: сканда́л (skandál)

• “scandale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Latin scandalum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon).

scandale m (plural scandales)

1. discourse, either spoken or written, which causes offense

• Often used in the context of Christianity to refer instances of the Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon) in the New Testament.