storey

Etymology
From, via from. The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches. .

An alternative etymology derives 🇨🇬 from, from , feminine past participle of , from , but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.

Noun

 * 1) A floor or level of a building or ship.
 * 2)  A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
 * 3)  A building; an edifice.
 * 1)  A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
 * 2)  A building; an edifice.
 * 1)  A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
 * 2)  A building; an edifice.
 * 1)  A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
 * 2)  A building; an edifice.
 * 1)  A building; an edifice.
 * 1)  A building; an edifice.

Usage notes
The terms, , or are used in a similar way, except that it is usual to talk of a “14-storey building”, but “the 14th floor”. The floor at ground or street level is called the in many places. In some of those places, the floor immediately above (e.g., the upper floor of a two-storey building) is called “the ”. In other places, the floor just above ground floor is called “the second floor”, and “first floor” is a synonym for “ground floor”.

The words and  exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof, such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings. They also often exclude basements and most attics.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * American Sign Language: B@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown-B@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown B@SideChesthigh-PalmDown-B@SideChesthigh-PalmDown
 * Amharic: ፎቅ
 * Arabic: طَابِق,, طَبَقَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: دور
 * Moroccan Arabic: طبقة
 * South Levantine Arabic: طَابق
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: ҡат, этаж
 * Belarusian: паве́рх
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: этаж
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 層, 樓
 * Dungan: цынзы, цын
 * Eastern Min: 層
 * Hakka: 層
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Northern Min: 層
 * Wu: 層
 * Chukchi: ярапытвын
 * Chuvash: хут
 * Crimean Tatar: qat
 * Czech:, , etáž
 * Danish: etage,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Eastern Mari: пачаш, этаж
 * Elfdalian: wåningg
 * Esperanto: etaĝo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: hædd
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: სართული, იარუსი
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic: illumi quleriinnik initalimmi init sanileriiaat
 * Hawaiian: papa
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: मंज़िल,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: kerta
 * Irish:, stór
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Karachay-Balkar: къат
 * Karakalpak: qabat
 * Kazakh: қабат, қатар
 * Khmer:
 * Komi-Permyak: сувда
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Lao: ຊັ້ນ, ຖ້ານ, ພູມ, ປະຕຸລາ
 * Latin: tabulātum
 * Latvian: stāvs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Stack
 * Macedonian: спрат, кат
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: sular
 * Marathi: मजला
 * Middle English: flor, stage
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠪᠬᠤᠷ
 * Nogai: шарлак
 * Northern Sami: geardi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: etasje
 * Ossetian: уӕладзыг
 * Ottoman Turkish: قات
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: plaun, auzada
 * Russian:, ,
 * Salar: xat, qat, sıŋ
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ка̏т, спра̏т
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: මහල්
 * Slovak: podlažie, poschodie
 * Slovene: nadstropje, etaža
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: nastwark
 * Upper Sorbian: poschod, etaža
 * Spanish:,  ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: patong
 * Tajik: қабат, ошёна
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ደርቢ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: etaž, mertebe, gat
 * Ukrainian: по́верх
 * Urdu: مَنْزِل, طَبَقَہ
 * Uyghur: قەۋەت, ئېتاژ
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (層)
 * Votic: jätaži
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: שטאָק, עטאַזש, גאָרן
 * Zhuang: caengz