staff
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stab, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav.
Sense of "group of military officers that assists a commander" and similar meanings, attested from 1702, is influenced by or is even from German Stab.
staff (countable and uncountable, plural staffs or staves or staff)
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staff (third-person singular simple present staffs, present participle staffing, simple past and past participle staffed)
staff
staff m (uncountable)
19th century. Obscure, possibly from German staffieren or Old French estofer (modern French étoffer)
staff m (plural staffs)
20th century. From English staff.
staff m (plural staffs)
Unadapted borrowing from English staff.
staff m (invariable)
staff
Unadapted borrowing from English staff.
staff m (uncountable)
Unadapted borrowing from English staff.
staff n (plural staffuri)
Unadapted borrowing from English staff.
staff m (uncountable)
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
staff f (plural staffiau, not mutable)
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