page

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One side of a sheet of paper in a book, magazine, or newspaper.

   I couldn't wait to see what would happen on the next page of the story.

2. 2
   noun

   A screen of text and other content shown on a computer or phone, especially on a website.

   Click the link to open the home page of our website.

3. 3
   verb

   To turn the pages of a book or magazine.

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

4. 4
   verb

   To contact someone using a pager or similar device.

   I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.

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Simplified etymology

Page has two origins. The book word comes from Latin pagina, “page,” from pangere, “to fasten.” The connection may be that pagina was first used of a scroll made from glued strips of papyrus and was later transferred to a book page; forms such as pagne existed before the 16th century. The other page entered Middle English via Old French from Greek paidion, “boy” or “lad,” and is first recorded in the sense “youth, male of uncouth manners.”

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Medieval 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.

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