estage

Middle French
FWOTD – 21 May 2020

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French estage (see below).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eːˈtaʒə/

Noun

estage m (plural estages)

  1. level (floor of a building, etc.)
    • c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:
      sur lequel engien avoit trois estages, et sur chascun estage povoient vingt arbalestriers
      Upon which contraption there were three levels, and upon each level twenty crossbowmen could fit
  2. house; building; abode
  3. stay; stopover
  4. rent (money paid for the hiring of a property)
  5. size; stature

Descendants
  • French: étage
    • → Czech: etáž
    • → Bulgarian: етаж (etaž)
    • → Danish: etage
    • → Dutch: etage
    • → Esperanto: etaĝo
    • → German: Etage
    • Norwegian:
      → Norwegian Bokmål: etasje
      → Norwegian Nynorsk: etasje
    • → Romanian: etaj
    • → Russian: этаж (etaž)

References
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (estage)

Old French

Etymology

ester +‎ -age, from Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō. Alternatively, possibly from an intermediate Vulgar Latin *stāticum, also from stō.

Pronunciation
  • (classical) IPA(key): /esˈtadʒə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /eːˈtaʒə/

Noun

estage oblique singular, m (oblique plural estages, nominative singular estages, nominative plural estage)

  1. house; dwelling; lodging
  2. room (in a house or dwelling)
  3. house; building; abode
  4. stay; stopover
  5. size; stature

Descendants

References
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