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Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French estage (see below).
Pronunciation
Noun
estage m (plural estages)
- 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
- house; building; abode
- stay; stopover
- rent (money paid for the hiring of a property)
- size; stature
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (estage)
Old French
Etymology
ester + -age, from Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō. Alternatively, possibly from an intermediate Vulgar Latin *stāticum, also from stō.
Pronunciation
Noun
estage oblique singular, m (oblique plural estages, nominative singular estages, nominative plural estage)
- house; dwelling; lodging
- room (in a house or dwelling)
- house; building; abode
- stay; stopover
- size; stature
Descendants
References