page
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪdʒ
- (Tasmanian) IPA(key): /paːʒ/
Etymology 1
Via Middle French from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.
Noun
page (plural pages)
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- (Can we date this quote?) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote?) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
- A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
- the page of history
- (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
- (Internet) A web page.
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- double-page
- front-page
- multi-page
- page-turner
- single-page
- web-page
Related terms
- on the same page
- page by page
- page in
- page out
- take a page out of someone’s book
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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.
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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)
- (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
- (Britain) 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 boy child.
- 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- 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.
- Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
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Verb
page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
- An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?
Translations
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpaː.ʒə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pa‧ge
- Rhymes: -aːʒə
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
Related terms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʒ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aʒ
Etymology 1
From Old French page, a borrowing from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).
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".
Further reading
- “page” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Norman
Etymology
From Old French page, from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).
Old French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.dʒə/
Noun
page f (oblique plural pages, nominative singular page, nominative plural pages)
- page (one face of a sheet of paper or similar material)
Etymology 2
Disputed, see page in English above.
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
- IPA(key): /pɑːɧ/