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scalene (adj.)
"having unequal sides," 1680s, from Late Latin
scalenus
, from Greek
skalenos
"uneven, unequal, odd (numbered)," as a noun, "triangle with unequal sides," from
skallein
"chop, hoe," from PIE
*(s)kel-
(1) "to cut" (see
scale
(n.1)).
