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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.
Noun
page (plural pages)
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- The book which he was reading had 213 pages.
- The graph is on page 30, but I opened the textbook at page 32.
- 1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
- Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
- One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
- a page from history
- (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
- (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- Hyponyms: help page, man page
- 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 44:
- To view man pages for a command: Type
manfollowed by the name of the command (for example,man ls), and press Return. […] To view the next page: Press Spacebar. The manual advances one page […] .
- (Internet) A web page.
- Hyponym: homepage
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
Derived terms
- 404 page
- about page
- attack page
- back-page
- back page
- Beatus page
- blank page
- code page
- confessions page
- continued on page 94
- continued page 94
- cover page
- doorway page
- double-page spread
- down-page
- empty page
- fan page
- front page
- front-page
- full-page
- home page
- jump page
- landing page
- main page
- memory page
- mini-page
- mise-en-page
- new page
- on the same page
- orphan page
- other on the same page
- page break
- page down
- page extent
- page fault
- page file
- page flow
- page fright
- page in
- page numbering
- page-one rewrite
- page out
- page proof
- page table
- page three girl
- page-turner
- page-turny
- page up
- page wire
- problem page
- rip a page out of someone's book
- rip a page out of someone's playbook
- single-page application
- splash page
- sports page
- start page
- sub-page
- tab page
- take a page out of someone's book
- take a page out of someone's playbook
- take a page out of someone’s book
- talk page
- title page
- turn a page
- turn the page
- user page
- wiki page
- WWW page
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
one side of a leaf of a book
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one of the pieces of paper bound together within a book or document
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collective memory
type set up for printing a page
Internet: web page — see web page
Verb
page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
- The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
mark the pages of
turn several pages of a publication
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furnish with folios
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Etymology 2
From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.
Noun
page (plural pages)
- (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
- Synonym: pageboy
- (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- (telecommunications, dated) A message sent to someone's pager.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355:
- Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. […] If you were a lawyer or a business executive, maybe you could afford to ignore your pages for a while, but when you were a County Sheriff—and one who was elected rather than appointed—there wasn't much question about priorities.
- 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Murray (Donald Faison):
- Woman, why don't you be answering any of my pages?
- Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
Translations
serving boy
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British: youth doing errands
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contrivance to hold a skirt from the ground
track along which bricks are conveyed
Verb
page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Will these moist trees […] page thy heels
- (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
- (transitive, telecommunications, dated) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
- I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
- 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Dionne (Stacey Dash):
- It's not even eight thirty and Murray is paging me.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
- An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?
Translations
contact by means of a pager
Anagrams
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch page, from Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".
Noun
page m (plural pages, diminutive pagetje n)
- (historical) page (boy serving a knight or noble, often of the noble estate)
- Synonym: edelknaap
- a page, a butterfly of the family Papilionidae
- Synonyms: ridder, ridderkapel
Derived terms
- koninginnenpage
- pagekapsel
- pagekop
References
- “page” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle French page, from Old French page, from Latin pagina.
Noun
page m (plural pages, diminutive pagetje n)
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French page, a borrowing from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).
Noun
page f (plural pages)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".
Noun
page m (plural pages)
Descendants
Further reading
- “page”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Karo Batak
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.
Noun
page
References
- Ahmad Samin Siregar et al. (2001). Kamus Bahasa Karo–Indonesia. Medan: Balai Pustaka, p. 163.
Latin
Noun
pāge
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French page.
Noun
page
- a boy child
- 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
- A doghter hadde they bitwixe hem two / Of twenty yeer, with-outen any mo, / Savinge a child that was of half-yeer age; / In cradel it lay and was a propre page.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Norman
Etymology
From Old French page, from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).
Noun
page f (plural pages)
Old French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
page oblique singular, f (oblique plural pages, nominative singular page, nominative plural pages)
- page (one face of a sheet of paper or similar material)
Descendants
Etymology 2
Disputed, see page in English above.
Noun
page oblique singular, m (oblique plural pages, nominative singular pages, nominative plural page)
- page (youth attending a person of high degree)
Descendants
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Spanish
Noun
page m (plural pages)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".
Pronunciation
Noun
page c
- page, serving boy
- pageboy (hairstyle)
- Synonym: pagefrisyr
Declension
References
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Tagalog
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *paʀih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS. Compare Malay pari & Fijian vai.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpaɡe/ [ˈpaː.ɣɛ]
- Rhymes: -aɡe
- Syllabification: pa‧ge
Noun
page (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜄᜒ) (ichthyology)
- ray (marine fish)
Derived terms
- buntot-page
- pageng-bulik
- pageng-manok
Further reading
- “page”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
- “page”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paRiS”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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