Etymograph

English

stage

Stage comes from Middle English stage, from Old French estage ‘dwelling, position’, from ester ‘to be standing’, from Latin stō ‘to stand’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstō‘to stand’
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEestōuncertain
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400ester‘to be standing, be located’
  4. Old French, derivedc. 842–1400estage‘dwelling, position’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500stage‘the topmost story of a building’
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1606same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstō‘to stand’
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEestōuncertain
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400ester‘to be standing, be located’
  4. Old French, derivedc. 842–1400estage‘dwelling, position’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500stage‘the topmost story of a building’
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1606same form

Earliest quotation: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of King Lear: “When we are born, we cry that we are…”

Linked words

through Latin stō

rest, station, distance, instance, instant, substance, distant, extant, distal, oust, obstetric, 26 more

Another origin of stage

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400estage‘house’
  2. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500stagium
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentstage‘internship’
  4. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

noun A phase.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin stō / stage

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