estage
Middle French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French estage (see below).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
estage m (plural estages)
- 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
- house; building; abode
- stay; stopover
- rent (money paid for the hiring of a property)
- size; stature
Descendants edit
- French: étage
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (estage)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
ester + -age, from Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō. Alternatively, possibly from an intermediate Vulgar Latin *stāticum, also from stō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
estage oblique singular, m (oblique plural estages, nominative singular estages, nominative plural estage)
- house; dwelling; lodging
- room (in a house or dwelling)
- house; building; abode
- stay; stopover
- size; stature
Descendants edit
- Middle French: estage, estaige
- Latin: stagium (Medieval Latin)
- → French: stage
- → Middle English: stage
- English: stage
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (estage)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (estage, supplement)
- estage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub