Where does “stage” come from?
Stage comes from Middle English stage, from Old French estage, derived from the Old French suffix -age attached to Latin sto, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European steh₂-, with the prefix ex from Latin.
stage (English): A phase; A platform; a surface, generally...
Definitions
- A phase; A platform; a surface, generally...
Ancestry of “stage”, step by step
stage traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French stage
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | stage | internship, job that a trainee is doing in a... |
| 2 | Old French | estation | garrison; pause; break; visit to a church for... |
| 3 | Latin | statiō | outpost, picket |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |