estage

Middle French

FWOTD – 21 May 2020

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French estage (see below).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eːˈtaʒə/

Noun

estage m (plural estages)

  1. 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
  2. house; building; abode
  3. stay; stopover
  4. rent (money paid for the hiring of a property)
  5. size; stature

Descendants

  • French: étage (see there for further descendants)

References

Old French

Etymology

ester +‎ -age, from Latin stāre. Alternatively, possibly from an intermediate Vulgar Latin *stāticum, also from stō.

Pronunciation

  • (classical) IPA(key): /esˈtadʒə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /eːˈtaʒə/

Noun

estage oblique singularm (oblique plural estages, nominative singular estages, nominative plural estage)

  1. house; dwelling; lodging
  2. room (in a house or dwelling)
  3. house; building; abode
  4. stay; stopover
  5. size; stature

Descendants

  • Middle French: estage, estaige
    • French: étage (see there for further descendants)
  • Medieval Latin: stagium
    • French: stage (see there for further descendants)
  • Middle English: stage

References