estage

Middle French

FWOTD – 21 May 2020

Alternative forms

• estaige

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

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (estage)

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 singular, m (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
  • English: stage

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (estage)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (estage, supplement)
• estage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub