estaple
Old French
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin stapula, ultimately from Frankish *stapul (“pillar, post; basis, foundation”).
Noun
editestaple oblique singular, f (oblique plural estaples, nominative singular estaple, nominative plural estaples)
Descendants
edit- Anglo-Norman: staple
- Middle French: estappe
- French: étape (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: stapula
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (estaple)
- estaple on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub