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
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- 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 Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō. Alternatively, possibly from a Vulgar Latin intermediate *stāticum, also from stō.
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
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