étape
See also: etape
English edit
Etymology edit
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. More at staple.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French estappe, from Old French estaple, from Middle Dutch stapel, from Old Dutch stapul, from Frankish *stapul.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
étape f (plural étapes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → 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 edit
- “étape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.