Stapel

Borrowed from Dutch and North German Stapel.

Stapel (plural Stapels)

1. A surname.

• → Translingual: Stapelia

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stapel is the 40554^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 539 individuals. Stapel is most common among White (95.73%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Stapel”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

From Middle Low German stāpel, from Old Saxon stapol, from Proto-West Germanic *stapul (“pillar, post, basis, foundation”). Doublet of Etappe and Staffel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtaːpl̩/, /ˈʃtaːpəl/

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Stapel m (strong, genitive Stapels, plural Stapel)

1. stack, batch (also computing)
2. (nautical) slipway

   Synonym: Helling

• Bücherstapel
• Kartenstapel m (“deck of playing cards”)
• Schallplattenstapel m (“stack of records”)

• stapelartig
• stapelweise

• Stapeleffekt
• Stapellauf
• Stapelverarbeitung

• “Stapel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Stapel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Stapel” in Duden online
• “Stapel” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Stapel on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de