storey

See also: Storey

English

Alternative forms

• story (US)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English story, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  historia (“narrative”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin, possibly from narratives painted on medieval buildings.

An alternative etymology derives (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English story from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had this meaning in Anglo-Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔːɹɪ/, /ˈstɔːɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɔːri
• Homophone: story

Noun

storey (plural storeys)

1. (obsolete) A building; an edifice.
2. (UK) A floor or level of a building or ship.

   Synonyms: floor, level, (US) story

   Coordinate term: deck

   For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.

   a multi-storey car park

3. (typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.

   The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey .

Usage notes

The terms floor, level, or deck are used in a similar way, except that it is usual to talk of a “14-storey building”, but “the 14th floor”. The floor at ground or street level is called the ground floor in many places. The words storey and floor exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof, such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings.

Derived terms

• midstorey
• multi-storey
• overstorey
• second-storey man
• storeyed

 

Translations

floor, level

• Afrikaans: verdieping
• Albanian: kat (sq) m, patomë (sq) f
• American Sign Language: B@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown-B@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown B@SideChesthigh-PalmDown-B@SideChesthigh-PalmDown
• Arabic: طَابِق m (ṭābiq), دَوْر (ar) m (dawr), طَبَقَة f (ṭabaqa)

  Egyptian Arabic: دور m (dōr)

• Armenian: հարկ (hy) (hark)
• Azerbaijani: mərtəbə (az), qat (az)
• Bashkir: ҡат (qat), этаж (etaj)
• Belarusian: паве́рх m (pavjérx)
• Bengali: তলা (tola), তল (tol), তালা (tala)
• Bulgarian: ета́ж (bg) m (etáž), кат (bg) m (kat)
• Burmese: အထပ် (my) (a.htap)
• Catalan: pis (ca) m
• Chechen: этаж (etaž)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 層／层 (cang⁴), 樓／楼 (lau^4-2)

  Mandarin: 層／层 (zh) (céng), 层 (zh) (céng), 樓／楼 (zh) (lóu), 楼 (zh) (lóu), 樓層／楼层 (zh) (lóucéng), 楼层 (zh) (lóucéng)

• Chukchi: ярапытвын (jarapytvyn)
• Chuvash: хут (hut)
• Crimean Tatar: qat
• Czech: podlaží (cs) n, patro (cs) n, etáž m
• Danish: etage c, sal (da) n
• Dutch: verdieping (nl) f, etage (nl) m, (Belgian) verdiep (nl) n
• Eastern Mari: ,
• Elfdalian: wåningg f
• Esperanto: etaĝo
• Estonian: korrus (et)
• Faroese: hædd f
• Finnish: kerros (fi)
• French: étage (fr) m
• Galician: andar (gl) m
• Georgian: სართული (sartuli), იარუსი (iarusi)
• German: Stock (de) m, Stockwerk (de) n, Geschoss (de) n, Etage (de) f
• Greek: όροφος (el) m (órofos), πάτωμα (el) n (pátoma)
• Greenlandic: illumi quleriinnik initalimmi init sanileriiaat
• Hawaiian: papa
• Hebrew: קוֹמָה (he) f (komá)
• Hindi: मंज़िल f (manzil)
• Hungarian: szint (hu), emelet (hu)
• Icelandic: hæð (is) f
• Indonesian: tingkat (id), lantai (id)
• Irish: urlár (ga) m, stór m
• Italian: piano (it) m
• Japanese: 階 (ja) (かい, kai)
• Karachay-Balkar: къат (qat)
• Kazakh: қабат (kk) (qabat), қатар (kk) (qatar)
• Khmer: ជាន់ (km) (cŏən)
• Komi-Permyak: сувда (suvda)
• Korean: 층 (ko) (cheung) (層 (ko))
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish: ,
• Kyrgyz: этаж (ky) (etaj), кабат (ky) (kabat), катар (ky) (katar)
• Lao: ຊັ້ນ (san), ຖ້ານ (thān), ພູມ (phūm), ປະຕຸລາ (pa tu lā)
• Latin: tabulātum n
• Latvian: stāvs m
• Lithuanian: aukštas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Stack m
• Macedonian: спрат m (sprat), кат m (kat)
• Malay: tingkat
• Maltese: sular
• Mongolian: давхар (mn) (davxar)
• Northern Sami: geardi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etasje (no) m

  Nynorsk: etasje m

• Ossetian: уӕладзыг (wælaʒyg)
• Pashto: طبقه (ps) f (tabaqá)
• Persian: طبقه (fa) (tabaqe), اشکوبه (fa) (oškube)
• Polish: piętro (pl) n, kondygnacja (pl) f, poziom (pl) m
• Portuguese: andar (pt), piso (pt) m
• Romanian: etaj (ro), nivel (ro)
• Romansch: plaun m, auzada f
• Russian: эта́ж (ru) m (etáž), у́ровень (ru) m (úrovenʹ), я́рус (ru) m (járus) (tier, layer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏т m, спрат m

  Roman: kȁt (sh) m, sprat (sh) m

• Sinhalese: මහල් (mahal)
• Slovak: podlažie n, poschodie n
• Slovene: nadstropje n, etaža f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: nastwark m

  Upper Sorbian: poschod m, etaža f

• Spanish: (Latin America) piso (es) m, (Spain) planta (es) f, nivel (es) m
• Swahili: sakafu (sw)
• Swedish: våning (sv) c
• Tagalog: patong
• Tajik: қабат (qabat), ошёна (ošyona)
• Tatar: кат (tt) (qat)
• Telugu: అంతస్తు (te) (antastu)
• Thai: ชั้น (th) (chán)
• Turkish: kat (tr)
• Turkmen: etaž, mertebe, gat
• Ukrainian: по́верх m (póverx)
• Urdu: منزل f (manzil)
• Uyghur: قەۋەت (qewet)
• Uzbek: qavat (uz), etaj (uz)
• Vietnamese: tầng (vi), 層 (tầng)
• Votic: jätaži
• Welsh: llawr (cy)
• Yiddish: שטאָק m (shtok), עטאַזש m (etazh), גאָרן m (gorn)

See also

• storey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Troyes, oyster, oystre, toyers, tyroes