étape

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.

• IPA^(key): /eɪˈtæp/

étape (plural étapes)

1. A public storehouse.
2. Supplies issued to troops on the march.
3. (by extension) The place where troops on the march halt overnight.
4. (by extension) The distance marched during a day.
6. (historical) In Russia, a rest point for parties of prisoners in transit on foot
7. (cycling) A stage of a multistage bicycle race.

• Peate

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

• IPA^(key): /e.tap/

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étape f (plural étapes)

1. stage, stop (on a journey)
2. leg (of race)
3. (figuratively) step, stage

• brûler les étapes
• faire étape

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

• épate, épaté, pâtée, tapée