staffetta

Italian

Etymology

From staffa (“stirrup”) +‎ -etta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stafˈfet.ta/
• Rhymes: -etta
• Hyphenation: staf‧fét‧ta

Noun

staffetta f (plural staffette)

1. courier, runner

   Synonyms: corriere, messaggero

2. (sports) relay race
3. (sports) relay team

Derived terms

• staffetta svedese
• staffettista

Descendants

• → Albanian: stafetë
• → Catalan: estafeta
• → French: estafette
  • → Dutch: estafette
    • → West Frisian: estafette
    • → Indonesian: estafet
  • → English: estafette
  • → Moroccan Arabic: سطافيط (sṭāfīṭ)
  • → Russian: эстафета (estafeta)
    • → Azerbaijani: estafet
    • → Crimean Tatar: estafeta
    • → Georgian: ესტაფეტა (esṭapeṭa)
    • → Kazakh: эстафета (èstafeta)
    • → Kyrgyz: эстафета (estafeta)
    • → Lithuanian: estafètė
• → German: Stafette, Staffette (obsolete)
  • → Bulgarian: щафета (štafeta)
  • → Czech: štafeta
  • → Hungarian: staféta
  • → Polish: sztafeta
  • → Romanian: ștafetă
  • → Serbo-Croatian: štaféta / штафе́та
    • → Macedonian: штафета (štafeta)
  • → Yiddish: שטאַפֿעט (shtafet)
• → Portuguese: estafeta
• → Romanian: ștafetă
• → Spanish: estafeta

Further reading

• “staffetta”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026