page

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See also:PAGE,Page,päge,pagé,andPagé

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/peɪd͡ʒ/
  • Audio(US):(file)
  • Rhymes:-eɪdʒ

Etymology 1

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ViaMiddle FrenchfromLatinpāgina,fromProto-Indo-European*peh₂ǵ-.Doubletofpagina.

Noun

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page(pluralpages)

  1. One of the many pieces ofpaperboundtogether within abookor similar document.
    • 1858October 16,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,“The Courtship of Miles Standish”,inThe Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems,Boston, Mass.:Ticknor and Fields,→OCLC:
      Such was the book from whosepagesshe sang.
    • 2013September-October,Henry Petroski,“The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, inAmerican Scientist‎[1]:
      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 manuscriptpagesas an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
  2. One side of a paperleafon which one haswrittenorprinted.
  3. (figurative)Anyrecordor writing; acollectivememory.
    thepageof history
  4. (typography)Thetypeset up forprintinga page.
  5. (computing)Ascreenfuloftextand possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
    • 2003,Maria Langer,Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced,page44:
      To view manpagesfor a command: Typemanfollowed by the name of the command (for example,man ls), and press Return.[…]To view the nextpage:Press Spacebar. The manual advances onepage(Figure 9).
  6. (Internet)Aweb page.
  7. (computing)Ablockofcontiguousmemoryof a fixedlength.
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Hyponyms
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • →Hindi:पेज(pej)
  • →Japanese:ページ(pēji)
  • →Korean:페이지(peiji)
Translations
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type set up for printing a page
Internet: web page—seeweb page
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Verb

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page(third-person singular simple presentpages,present participlepaging,simple past and past participlepaged)

  1. (transitive)Tomarkornumberthe pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  2. (intransitive,often with “through”)Toturnseveral pages of a publication.
    The patientpagedthrough magazines while he waited for the doctor.
  3. (transitive)Tofurnishwithfolios.

(Can we add anexamplefor this sense?)

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Etymology 2

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FromOld Frenchpage,possibly viaItalianpaggio,fromLate Latinpagius(“servant”),probably fromAncient Greekπαιδίον(paidíon,“boy, lad”),fromπαῖς(paîs,“child”);some sources consider this unlikely and suggest insteadLatinpagus(“countryside”),in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.

Noun

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page(pluralpages)

  1. (historical)Aservingboy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially atcourts,often as a position of honor and education.
    Synonym:page boy
  2. (British)Ayouthemployed for doingerrands,waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  3. (US,Canada)Aboyorgirlemployed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  4. (in libraries)The common name given to anemployeewhose main purpose is to replace materials that have either beenchecked outor otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  5. Acontrivance,as aband,pin,snap,or the like, to hold theskirtof a woman’s dress from the ground.
  6. Atrackalong whichpalletscarrying newly moldedbricksare conveyed to thehack.
  7. (telecommunications,dated)Amessagesent to someone'spager.
    • 1991,Stephen King,Needful Things,page355:
      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 yourpagesfor 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 mypages?
  8. Any one of several species of colorful South Americanmothsof the genusUrania.
    (Can we add anexamplefor this sense?)
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Verb

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page(third-person singular simple presentpages,present participlepaging,simple past and past participlepaged)

  1. (transitive)Toattend(someone) as a page.
  2. (transitive,US,obsoletein UK)Tocallorsummon(someone).
  3. (transitive,telecommunications,dated)Tocontact(someone) by means of apageror othermobiledevice.
    I'll be out all day, sopageme if you need me.
  4. (transitive)Tocall(somebody) using apublic address systemto find them.
    An SUV parked me in. Could you pleasepageits owner?
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attend as a page

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Dutch

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DutchWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipedianl

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Dutchpage,fromOld Frenchpage,possibly viaItalianpaggio,fromLate Latinpagius(“servant”),probably fromAncient Greekπαιδίον(paidíon,“boy, lad”),fromπαῖς(paîs,“child”);some sources consider this unlikely and suggest insteadLatinpagus(“countryside”),in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

Noun

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pagem(pluralpages,diminutivepagetjen)

  1. (historical)page(boy serving a knight or noble, often of the noble estate)
    Synonym:edelknaap
  2. apage,abutterflyof the familyPapilionidae
    Synonyms:ridder,ridderkapel
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References
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  • “page”inWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling,Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchpage,fromOld Frenchpage,fromLatinpagina.

Noun

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pagem(pluralpages,diminutivepagetjen)

  1. (archaic)page(sheet of paper)
    Synonyms:blad,bladzijde,pagina
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French

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Etymology 1

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InheritedfromOld Frenchpage,a borrowing fromLatinpāgina(“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).

Noun

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pagef(pluralpages)

  1. page(of a book, etc.)
  2. page,web page
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Etymology 2

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FromOld Frenchpage,possibly viaItalianpaggio,fromLate Latinpagius(“servant”),probably fromAncient Greekπαιδίον(paidíon,“boy, lad”),fromπαῖς(paîs,“child”);some sources consider this unlikely and suggest insteadLatinpagus(“countryside”),in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

Noun

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pagem(pluralpages)

  1. page,page boy
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Further reading

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Karo Batak

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Etymology

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FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*pajay,fromProto-Austronesian*pajay.

Noun

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page

  1. paddy(unmilled rice),rice(plant)

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Latin

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Noun

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pāge

  1. vocativesingularofpāgus

Middle English

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchpage.

Noun

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page

  1. aboychild

Norman

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchpage,fromLatinpāgina(“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).

Noun

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pagef(pluralpages)

  1. (Jersey)page

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromLatinpāgina.

Noun

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pageoblique singular,f(oblique pluralpages,nominative singularpage,nominative pluralpages)

  1. page(one face of a sheet of paper or similar material)
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Etymology 2

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Disputed, seepagein English above.

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pageoblique singular,m(oblique pluralpages,nominative singularpages,nominative pluralpage)

  1. page(youth attending a person of high degree)
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Spanish

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Noun

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pagem(pluralpages)

  1. page,pageboy

Swedish

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchpage,possibly viaItalianpaggio,fromLate Latinpagius(“servant”),probably fromAncient Greekπαιδίον(paidíon,“boy, lad”),fromπαῖς(paîs,“child”);some sources consider this unlikely and suggest insteadLatinpagus(“countryside”),in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pagec

  1. page,serving boy
  2. pageboy(hairstyle)
    Synonym:pagefrisyr

Declension

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Declension ofpage
nominative genitive
singular indefinite page pages
definite pagen pagens
plural indefinite pager pagers
definite pagerna pagernas

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Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromProto-Philippine*paʀih,fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*paʀih,fromProto-Austronesian*paʀiS.CompareMalaypari.

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Noun

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page(Baybayin spellingᜉᜄᜒ)(ichthyology)

  1. ray(marine fish)

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Further reading

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  • “page”atKWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎[2],Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino,2021
  • “page”,inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph,Manila,2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paRiS”,in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary(2010–),→DOI
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