English Explanatory Dictionary

étape

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A public storehouse.
  2. Supplies issued to troops on the march.
  3. The place where troops on the march halt overnight.
  4. The distance marched during a day.
  5. In Russia, a rest point for parties of prisoners in transit on foot
  6. A stage of a multistage bicycle race.

Pronunciation

/eɪˈtæp/

Word forms

étape étapes

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 the doublet staple.

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