Stafette

German

Alternative forms

• Staffette (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian staffetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtaˈfɛtə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

Stafette f (genitive Stafette, plural Stafetten)

1. (historical) courier
2. relay (series of vehicles travelling in sequence)
3. (dated) synonym of Staffel
4. (sports, dated outside Switzerland) synonym of Staffellauf (“relay race”)

Declension

Declension of Stafette [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Stafette	die	Stafetten
genitive	einer	der	Stafette	der	Stafetten
dative	einer	der	Stafette	den	Stafetten
accusative	eine	die	Stafette	die	Stafetten

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
• “Staffette” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.