Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A public storehouse. · Supplies issued to troops on the march. · The place where troops on the march halt overnight. · The distance marched during a day.
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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