Middle French

Alternative forms

• estaige

Noun

estage m (plural estages)

1. 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

2. house; building; abode
3. stay; stopover
4. rent (money paid for the hiring of a property)
5. size; stature

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e 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.

Noun

estage m ‎(oblique plural estages, nominative singular estages, nominative plural estage)

1. house; dwelling; lodging
2. room (in a house or dwelling)
3. house; building; abode
4. stay; stopover
5. size; stature

Descendants

• English: stage
• French: étage, stage
• Latin: stagium (Medieval Latin)

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (estage)
• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (estage, supplement)
• estage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub