Stafette

== German == === Alternative forms === Staffette (obsolete) === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian staffetta. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃtaˈfɛtə/ === Noun === Stafette f (genitive Stafette, plural Stafetten) (historical) courier relay (series of vehicles travelling in sequence) (dated) synonym of Staffel (sports, dated outside Switzerland) synonym of Staffellauf (“relay race”) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== Stapfe ==== Descendants ==== → Bulgarian: щафета (štafeta) → Czech: štafeta → Hungarian: staféta → Polish: sztafeta → Romanian: ștafetă → Serbo-Croatian: štaféta / штафе́та → Macedonian: штафета (štafeta) → Yiddish: שטאַפֿעט (shtafet) === Further reading === “Stafette” in Duden online “Stafette”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Staffette” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.