English Online Dictionary. What means page? What does page mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɪd͡ʒ/
- Rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Etymology 1
Via Middle French 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.
- One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
- (figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.
- (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.
- (Internet) A web page.
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
Synonyms
- (side of a leaf): folio, side
- (record, writing): account, record
Hyponyms
- (Internet): homepage, Web page, webpage
- (computing, Internet): help page, man page, manpage
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Hindi: पेज (pej)
- → Japanese: ページ (pēji)
- → Korean: 페이지 (peiji)
Translations
References
- page on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
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Translations
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: page boy
- (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.
- Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
Verb
page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (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.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
Translations
Anagrams
- gape, peag, EGPA
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpaː.ʒə/
- 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
page m (plural pages, diminutive pagetje n)
- (archaic) page (sheet of paper)
- Synonyms: blad, bladzijde, pagina
Related terms
- pagina
Anagrams
- gape
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʒ/
- Rhymes: -aʒ
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French page, a borrowing from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).
Noun
page f (plural pages)
- page (of a book, etc.)
- page, web page
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)
- page, page boy
Descendants
- → Polish: paź
- → Russian: паж (paž)
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
- paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)
References
- Ahmad Samin Siregar et al. (2001). Kamus Bahasa Karo–Indonesia. Medan: Balai Pustaka, p. 163.
Latin
Noun
pāge
- vocative singular of pāgus
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French page.
Noun
page
- a boy child
Norman
Etymology
From Old French page, from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).
Noun
page f (plural pages)
- (Jersey) page
Old French
Alternative forms
- paige
- parge
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.dʒə/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin pāgina.
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
- English: page
- French: page
- Norman: page (Jersey)
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
- Middle French: page
- French: page (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: page
- English: page
- → Middle Irish: páitse
- Irish: páiste
- Manx: paitçhey
- Scottish Gaelic: pàisde
Spanish
Noun
page m (plural pages)
- page, pageboy
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/
Noun
page c
- page, serving boy
- pageboy (hairstyle)
- Synonym: pagefrisyr
Declension
References
- page in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- page in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- page in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- pagi
- pagui — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *paʀih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS. Compare Malay pari.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpaɡe/ [ˈpaː.ɣɛ]
- Rhymes: -aɡe
- Syllabification: pa‧ge
Noun
page (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜄᜒ)
- (ichthyology) ray (marine fish)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “page” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[2], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “page”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018