étape

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”). More at staple.

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.
5. (historical) In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.
6. (cycling) A stage of a multistage bicycle race.

• Peate

From Middle Dutch stapel.

• IPA^(key): /e.tap/

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étape f (plural étapes)

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

• Catalan: etapa
• German: Etappe
• Italian: tappa
• Spanish: etapa

• “étape” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• épate, épaté, pâtée, tapée