estage
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Old French, see below.
Noun
estage m (plural estages)
- level (floor of a building, etc.)
- circa 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
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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō. Alternatively, possibly from a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin intermediate *stāticum, also from stō.
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
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (estage)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (estage, supplement)
- estage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Categories:
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Middle French terms with quotations
- Old French terms suffixed with -age
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns