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• IPA^(key): /peɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Via Middle French from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.

page (plural pages)

1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
   • 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^[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 manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

2. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
3. (figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.

   the page of history

4. (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
5. (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
   • 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 44:

     To view man pages for a command: Type man followed 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 (Figure 9).

6. (Internet) A web page.
7. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

• (side of a leaf): folio, side
• (record, writing): account, record

• (Internet): homepage, Web page, webpage
• (computing, Internet): help page, man page, manpage

• → Hindi: पेज (pej)
• → Japanese: ページ (pēji)
• → Korean: 페이지 (peiji)

•   page on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)

1. (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
2. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.

   The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.

3. (transitive) To furnish with folios.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

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.

page (plural pages)

1. (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

2. (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
3. (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
4. (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.
5. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
6. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
7. (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?

8. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)

1. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
   • c. 1605–1608, 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

2. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
3. (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.

4. (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.

   An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?

• gape, peag, EGPA

 

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

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".

page m (plural pages, diminutive pagetje n)

1. (historical) page (boy serving a knight or noble, often of the noble estate)

   Synonym: edelknaap

2. a page, a butterfly of the family Papilionidae

   Synonyms: ridder, ridderkapel

• koninginnenpage
• pagekapsel
• pagekop

• “page” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Borrowed from Middle French page, from Old French page, from Latin pagina.

page m (plural pages, diminutive pagetje n)

1. (archaic) page (sheet of paper)

   Synonyms: blad, bladzijde, pagina

• pagina

• gape

• IPA^(key): /paʒ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aʒ

Inherited from Old French page, a borrowing from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).

page f (plural pages)

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

page m (plural pages)

1. page, page boy

• → Polish: paź
• → Russian: паж (paž)

• “page”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

page

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

• Ahmad Samin Siregar et al. (2001). Kamus Bahasa Karo–Indonesia. Medan: Balai Pustaka, p. 163.

pāge

1. vocative singular of pāgus

From Old French page.

page

1. 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)

From Old French page, from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).

page f (plural pages)

1. (Jersey) page

• paige
• parge

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dʒə/

Borrowed from Latin pāgina.

page oblique singular, f (oblique plural pages, nominative singular page, nominative plural pages)

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

• English: page
• French: page
• Champenois: paidge
• Norman: page (Jersey)

Disputed, see page in English above.

page oblique singular, m (oblique plural pages, nominative singular pages, nominative plural page)

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

• 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

page m (plural pages)

1. page, pageboy

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".

• IPA^(key): /pɑːɧ/

page c

1. page, serving boy
2. pageboy (hairstyle)

   Synonym: pagefrisyr

• page in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• page in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• page in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• pagi
• pagui — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

From Proto-Philippine *paʀih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS. Compare Malay pari.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɡe/ [ˈpaː.ɣɛ]
• Rhymes: -aɡe
• Syllabification: pa‧ge

page (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜄᜒ) (ichthyology)

1. ray (marine fish)

• “page” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[2], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “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