Stapel

See also: stapel

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Stapel

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch and North German Stapel.

Proper noun

Stapel (plural Stapels)

1. A surname.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Stapelia

Statistics

• 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.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tepals, patels, leptas, septal, plates, petals, Staple, peltas, Patels, staple, palets, palest, pleats, pastel, Pleats

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtaːpl̩/, /ˈʃtaːpəl/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

Stapel m (strong, genitive Stapels, plural Stapel)

1. stack, batch (also computing)

   ein Stapel Teller ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   mit einem Stapel Tellern ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   ein Stapel farbige Teller / ein Stapel farbiger Teller ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   mit einem Stapel farbigen Tellern / farbiger Teller ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   ein Stapel Holz ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   ein Stapel gespaltenes Holz / gespaltenen Holzes ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   mit einem Stapel gespaltenem Holz / gespaltenen Holzes ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (nautical) slipway

   Synonym: Helling

Declension

Declension of Stapel [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Stapel	die	Stapel
genitive	eines	des	Stapels	der	Stapel
dative	einem	dem	Stapel	den	Stapeln
accusative	einen	den	Stapel	die	Stapel

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

• stapelartig
• stapelweise

Related terms

• Stapeleffekt
• Stapellauf
• Stapelverarbeitung

Further reading

• “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