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+ {{homograph|1|leaf of a book}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1160–1174, Wace, Roman de Rou|origins=la pāgina}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /paʒ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''page''' ''f'' (plural pages)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The page of a book is [[bor|la|pāgina|t=leaf, page]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|7, 472b) Littré connected the Latin word with [[m|la|pangō|t=to fasten]], first a plate or a thing fixed.^(Littré 1873) Old Walloon and Old Picard had “pagene”, “pagine”, and Rabelais wrote “pagine”.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Wace's ''Roman de Rou'' (1160–1174) uses it for either side of a leaf that can carry writing.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ About 1220 it meant by extension a text or story, and in 1530 the writing on a page.^(TLFi) Printing gave ''mettre en pages'' (1765) and ''mise en pages'' (1835); a ''page de l'histoire'', a period in the life of a person or a people, dates from 1801, and ''page'' as a piece of music or literature from 1832 (Hugo).^(TLFi)

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+ ''Tourner la page'' “to move on” is in Clemenceau (1899); ''être à la page'' was soldiers' slang for “to be well informed” (1914) before it meant “to be up to date with fashion” (1921).^(TLFi)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1160–1174 – A page, Wace.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1220 – A text, a story.^(TLFi)

+ * 1765 – ''Mettre en pages''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1801 – ''Une page de l'histoire''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1899 – ''Tourner la page'', Clemenceau.^(TLFi)

+ * 1914 – ''Être à la page''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|page]], each side of a leaf of paper: ''à la page 4'', ''page blanche'', ''la première page d'un journal''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # What is written on a page; a passage of a work: ''les plus belles pages de Proust''.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # An episode, a period: ''une page de l'histoire'', ''tourner la page'', to put the past behind one.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Être à la page'': to be up to date.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|web page]]: ''page d'accueil''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pagination]]

+ * [[paginer]]

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+ {{homograph|2|page boy}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1225, Gautier de Coinci|origins=grc παιδίον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /paʒ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''page''' ''m'' (plural pages)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The page boy is a word of uncertain origin.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Bloch and Wartburg and the FEW derive it from [[grc|παιδίον|tr=paidíon|t=little boy; young slave]], a diminutive of [[m|grc|παῖς|tr=paîs|t=child]], through a romanized “*paidiu”.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|7, 474a) A borrowing [[der|it|paggio]] is difficult, since the Italian word is recorded only after 1350, later than the French, Bloch and Wartburg think it comes from French instead.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(REW 1935) Holthausen proposed [[la|pathicus|t=passive homosexual]], Spitzer a Latin “*pagicus” “peasant” from [[m|la|pāgus|t=countryside]]; the TLFi and Rey reject both.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Littré, noting that the early page was a lowly servant, compared [[pro|pages|t=peasant]], from Latin “pagensis”.^(Littré 1873)

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+ The English word [[m|en|page]] was borrowed from French about 1300.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Gautier de Coinci's ''Miracles de Nostre-Dame'' (about 1225) uses it for a young servant, Guiart (about 1307) for an army servant.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ After 1350 a ''page'' was a boy, usually of noble family, attached to a prince or lord, ''estre hors de paige'' (1456, Antoine de La Sale) meant to be past the age of being a page, and figuratively, from Rabelais (1532), to be free of all dependence.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Furetière noted in 1690 that only recently had noble pages been distinguished from humble ones on foot, called ''laquais''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ In the 19th century it was a fashion term for a clip hooked to the belt to hold up a skirt (1868, after ''page-agrafe'' 1847), and in hunting a young stag that an old one keeps by him to put the hounds off the scent (1874).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1225 – A young servant, Gautier de Coinci.^(TLFi)

+ * late 14th century – A noble boy in a lord's service.^(TLFi)

+ * 1456 – ''Estre hors de paige'', Antoine de La Sale.^(TLFi)

+ * 1532 – ''Être hors de page'' figuratively, Rabelais.^(TLFi)

+ * 1868 – A skirt clip.^(TLFi)

+ * 1874 – A young stag, in hunting.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(historical)'' A [[m|en|page]]: a young noble placed with a king, lord or great lady to learn the use of arms and serve.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(dated)'' ''Hardi, effronté comme un page'': very bold, impudent.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(hunting)'' A young stag accompanying an old one.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A third ''page'' (masculine, also ''pageot'' and ''paje'') is a slang word for a bed, recorded from 1916, shortened from ''pageot''.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(BHVF)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}