étape

See also: etape

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French étape, from Middle French estappe, from Old French estaple (“warehouse; a place where merchants bring their wares to be sold”), from Middle Dutch stapel (“warehouse; market”), from Old Dutch stapul, from Frankish *stapul. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from Russian эта́п (etáp). More at the doublet staple.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eɪˈtæp/

Noun

étape (plural étapes)

A public storehouse.
Supplies issued to troops on the march.
(by extension) The place where troops on the march halt overnight.
(by extension) The distance marched during a day.
(historical) In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.
(cycling) A stage of a multistage bicycle race.

Anagrams

Peate

French

Etymology

From Middle French estappe, from Old French estaple, from Middle Dutch stapel, from Old Dutch stapul, from Frankish *stapul.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.tap/
Audio: (file)

Noun

étape f (plural étapes)

stage, stop (on a journey)
leg (of race)
(figuratively) step, stage

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Belarusian: этап (etap)
→ Bulgarian: етап (etap)
→ Catalan: etapa
→ Danish: etape
→ Dutch: etappe
- → Indonesian: etape
→ English: étape
→ Galician: etapa
→ German: Etappe
→ Italian: tappa
→ Lithuanian: etapas
→ Macedonian: етапа (etapa)
→ Norwegian: etappe
→ Polish: etap
→ Portuguese: etapa
→ Romanian: etapă
→ Russian: этап (etap)
- → Georgian: ეტაპი (eṭaṗi)
→ Serbo-Croatian: етапа / etapa
→ Spanish: etapa
→ Turkish: etap
→ Ukrainian: етап (etap)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

épate, épaté, pâtée, tapée

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