estaple

== Old French == === Etymology === From Late Latin stapula, ultimately from Frankish *stapul (“pillar, post; basis, foundation”). === Noun === estaple oblique singular, f (oblique plural estaples, nominative singular estaple, nominative plural estaples) marketplace ==== Descendants ==== Anglo-Norman: staple → Middle English: staple, stapel, stapil, stapulEnglish: stapleScots: stapill, staple, steple Middle French: estappe French: étape (see there for further descendants) → Italian: stapula === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “estaple”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. estaple on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub