étape

See also: etape

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French étape, from Middle French estappe, from Old French estaple (“warehouse; a place where merchants bring their wares to be sold”), from Middle Dutch stapel (“warehouse; market”), from Old Dutch stapul, from Frankish *stapul. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from Russian эта́п (etáp). More at staple.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eɪˈtæp/

Noun

étape (plural étapes)

1. A public storehouse.
2. Supplies issued to troops on the march.
3. (by extension) The place where troops on the march halt overnight.
4. (by extension) The distance marched during a day.
6. (historical) In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.
7. (cycling) A stage of a multistage bicycle race.

Anagrams

• Peate

French

Etymology

From Middle French estappe, from Old French estaple, from Middle Dutch stapel, from Old Dutch stapul, from Frankish *stapul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.tap/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

étape f (plural étapes)

1. stage, stop (on a journey)
2. leg (of race)
3. (figuratively) step, stage

Derived terms

• brûler les étapes
• faire étape

Descendants

• → Belarusian: этап (etap)
• → Bulgarian: етап (etap)
• → Catalan: etapa
• → Danish: etape
• → Dutch: etappe
  • → Indonesian: etape
• → English: étape
• → Galician: etapa
• → German: Etappe
• → Italian: tappa
• → Lithuanian: etapas
• → Macedonian: етапа (etapa)
• → Norwegian: etappe
• → Polish: etap
• → Portuguese: etapa
• → Romanian: etapă
• → Russian: этап (etap)
  • → Georgian: ეტაპი (eṭaṗi)
• → Serbo-Croatian: етапа / etapa
• → Spanish: etapa
• → Turkish: etap
• → Ukrainian: етап (etap)

Further reading

• “étape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• épate, épaté, pâtée, tapée